Chapter 71

Noah had the smarmiest urge to keep Vanessa strapped to the car and drive all the way back to where they came from. He was needed back at his palace urgently and his promise ate away at his conscience. Bringing Vanessa to Silas was something he had promised her the night before, she trusted him to act on it. Especially now, since they were here and an old man was closing hiis front door to come greet them.

He was aware of his wolf rattling his cage at the similarity of comfort between the girl next to him and Silas.

“I’ll be fine. I’ll call. It’s just two days.” She tigthened her hands in his. She looked anxious, he realized. He was feeding into it if he kept behaving like this.

“I know.I like how his home is surrounded by canopy here,” he pointed to the North-East and West from where any wolf could be seen coming from miles away. “And high shrubs” They lined symmetrical path, like farming, to let the occupant of the house now their attacker was a large jungle cat, changeling or not