Chapter 12

Zea's POV

I didn't know how long I had been walking; the forest seemed like an endless ocean from which there was no escape. It was only after many minutes that I realized, exhausted, that I was lost.

Keeping a cool head while everyone was screaming to turn around and go back to the blue-eyed man was incredibly draining.

I took a quick breather at an old nail tree, but a voice made me jump.

"A little doll alone in the forest, well, well, well. Didn't your mother teach you anything else, Doll?" purred a man who now emerged from the shadows and came to a halt just in front of me.

I was so drained of energy that I didn't even bother to answer the man, after all, it wouldn't do any good anyway.

What I noticed was that it was the same man who addressed me as 'Kitten' at Violet's yesterday I could vomit thinking about it.

I was finally able to condescend to “Just leave me alone,” even though my eyelids almost closed and I had to c