Zeke: The Boundarylands Omegaverse: MF Alpha Omega Romance by Callie Rhodes

Author:Callie Rhodes [Rhodes, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Nearly three weeks after arriving in the Boundarylands, Darcy had to admit that living in the middle of the woods wasn't so bad.

The small, square structure Zeke had built for her on the western edge of his land near a natural spring was snug and secure. It had a tiny porch and shelves for her belongings, as well as a window that looked out on the mountains in the distance. He'd even carried the cot out for her.

Darcy had everything she needed. Zeke dropped off food every morning before she woke, and she had grown accustomed to using a lantern for light and washing her clothes and dishes in the spring.

At first, it had been hard to get used to the quiet. Having spent her entire life until now living in the city, the silence had been unsettling. The night sky had creeped her out as well, filled with more stars than Darcy ever imagined existed. For a full week, she would have given anything for a single streetlight or neon sign.

But now she had come to enjoy the peace of lying in the darkness, the only sound the forest creatures occasionally stirring, or the breeze rustling the trees outside her window.

But there was one aspect of a life lived in nature that Darcy hadn't adjusted to: it was lonely.

It wasn't the lack of people that weighed on her. Darcy had spent plenty of time surrounded by people and still feeling completely alone.

But this was real solitude. From sunup to sundown, she had nothing but her own thoughts for company and no distractions to take her mind off them. As the days passed with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no one to talk to, Darcy was learning things about herself that she had never been aware of before.

Some of those things weren't so bad. For instance, now Darcy knew that she could close her eyes and replay her favorite movie in her mind. Or that, as she went further and further afield on her walks, she could mark her route through what had once seemed to be identical trees and find her way back.

But other realizations were harder to accept. The most discouraging was that, despite having worked hard her whole life to be completely independent, Darcy was forced to admit that there was no way she could survive out here on her own.

Sure, she could walk for miles without the fear she'd once felt in the forest, but she still relied on the food Zeke left outside her door every morning before she woke up. She kept warm at night under blankets and furs that he'd provided. She drank out of the spring using the cup he'd given her and lit her small shelter with the matches and lantern he'd left behind.

All of that, Darcy could make her peace with. It wasn't so different from relying on the corner store for her coffee back home.

What was harder to accept was that without Zeke's help—without the place

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