Chapter Ten

Lilith's POV

I wake with a pounding headache and Theo sleeping at my feet again.

I groan as I move my limbs pushing oxygen around them as pins and needles hurt my whole body.

"Good, you are up" Lucas mumbles towards me from the door.

"I am."

"Get out of bed, we need to talk," he tells me.

I extricate myself from the bed as quickly and efficiently as I can without waking Theo and I dress in black leggings and a tank top before finding Lucas standing outside the room in the hallway waiting for me.

He grabs my arm dragging me along with him down the stairs, through the kitchen and out the house.

He drops my arm once we're on the grass but he snarls for me to follow him. So I do.

"Where are you taking me?."

"For a walk" he throws back over his shoulder.

Walk we do, all through the forest. Alongside the river and up a few hills.

He brings me to a waterfall, something I may have found if I had chosen to walk in the opposite direction than I did that day I woke in the river that day.

"Yo