Destiny Rising: Destiny Series: Book Two by Cooke CJ

Author:Cooke, CJ
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The rabbits Liam caught were delicious. I’d never eaten rabbit before. It was one of those things I just couldn’t bring myself to try. If I ever saw it all I could think of were the little fluffy bunnies you see in the pet shop window. But who knew they were so tasty!

“We should do this again when all of this is over,” I said tucking into my breakfast. “This is nice if you ignore the running for our lives and the impending war part.”

It was so pretty here. And quiet. I’d lived in a city all my life, and I’d never been somewhere like this before. It was peaceful, and I felt like I could relax out here. I didn’t think I’d ever had the feeling before.

“We’re going to have to leave soon,” Kyle said, as he rolled up the sleeping bags and stowed them back away in the packs. “We don’t know how close the pack could be.”

And with that, the relaxed feeling I’d been enjoying shattered. With a sigh, I pulled the compass out of my jacket pocket. As I was checking the dial, Sykes started to put out the fire. We all got ready to leave, and the guys distributed the packs between them.

“We need to keep heading in that direction,” I said nodding towards the trees—more running through the trees.

“How are we going to know when we get to where we’re supposed to be going?” Sykes asked, peering down at the dial.

“Hopefully we’ll know when we see it,” I said, but then when I thought about it, I added. “But I suppose the compass will swing in the opposite direction if we go past it.”

“Smart,” Liam said as we headed out.

“I can be smart,” I muttered to myself.

We kept jogging through the trees for about four hours. I checked the compass periodically, but it just kept pointing in the same direction. For all I knew, the bloody thing was broken.

“Maybe you should take the compass and scout ahead a bit,” Kyle suggested when we stopped for a water break.

I was reluctant to leave the guys when we didn’t know if the pack was still pursuing us or, if they were, how close they could be. I’d been thinking about it this morning while we ate breakfast. I wasn’t going to let Kyle have to face Wyatt. If it came down to it and he came after us, I would be the one to kill him. Kyle might hate me for it, but I’d rather that than he hated himself.

“I don’t know,” I hesitated. “Maybe I just scout behind us first, make sure we’re not being followed,” I suggested.

Kyle looked at me like I was crazy for a second. “You’re not going back to potentially confront the pack on your own,” he said.

“I wasn’t going to confront anyone. I was just going to scout behind and see if anyone is following us and, if so, how far out they are,” I argued. “It’d be sensible to know if we need to keep this pace up.

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