Chapter 20

I could hear how loud my pulse was as I spun to face the vile male, my skin crawling at the sight of his left eye that darted restlessly without focus.

“What did you just say?” I asked softly, refusing to believe that this unnerving bounty hunter had just made mention of my dad.

He shifted his stance, balancing a duffle bag that I had not noticed before on his shoulders.

“Heh, you don’t like that, do you? Me bringing up your father.” He snorted, laughing strangely at something only he knew about.

I was starting to get annoyed. I scanned him again, taking note of details that I had missed before and something new struck me.

It was fake. The animal skin he wore as a cloak was a fake, I could not pick up any scent from it.

My nose flared and my eyes narrowed into slits, I could hardly pick up his own scent either, it was almost like he had somehow masked it.

How...?

“Who are you?” I gritted out, hoping that Chase would return. Others hardly ventured into the garden by this time and that