Chapter 431

Brit took a deep breath and then hesitantly placed her fingers on the pointer as well. She did not know whether she was imagining it, but the wooden triangle seemed to feel warm under her fingertips. She hoped the damn thing would stay right where it was.

Instead, it began to slide slowly across the board a few inches before stopping.

"I," Lexi said, reading out the letter where the pointer had stopped. The pointer moved again. Lexi continued to call out the letters. "A...M." She hesitated a moment, then read. "I am..."

Brit stared hard at the board, wondering what name the guys had planned to spell—and hoping that it WAS the guys who were doing it.

"I am who?" Ryan asked when the pointer started making slow circles around the board without stopping on any letters.

The wind suddenly ceased blowing. Everything had gone deathly still. Only the gurgling stream broke the silence, and even that seemed to have quieted a bit, as if nat