Chapter 103. Pathetic

“Don’t look back, Lily,” Brandy urged urgently. She knew they needed to get as far away as possible. Her father would stop at nothing to possess Lily, and she had to find a way to hide her until things calmed down.

The chaos from the packhouse faded into the distance as Lily and Brandy sprinted through the woods. Lily’s breath came ragged and panicked, and her once-pristine white gown now fluttered behind her, tattered and dirtied by the forest.

“Let’s shift,” Lily suggested as she tried to catch her breath. “We can move much faster that way.”

“We don’t have time. We can’t pause. They will catch up to us,” Brandy replied. She continued to pull Lily forward. Brandy could hear chuckling in Brandy’s mind.

‘You idiotic girl. Do you really think you can escape me?’ The voice mocked her.

Brandy knew the voice and didn’t want to believe that this person was following them. She didn’t want to face them if she didn’t have to.

The forest seemed to swallow t