Night Tide by Kory M. Shrum

Author:Kory M. Shrum [Shrum, Kory M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kory M. Shrum

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Grayson Choice 13

Trust Abby and take off the necklace

Leave the onyx on

Grayson: Leave the onyx on

Grayson wrapped his hand around the onyx. “But I don’t want to take it off.”

“Of course you do.” She looked out the window, searching Canyon Road. No doubt she was hoping the cavalry would arrive.

“It’s not that I don’t trust you,” he was quick to add, only that he wasn’t sure how to end that statement. “I just want to wear it.”

“That’s fine.” She grabbed the pack between her legs and threw open the passenger side door. “We better get a move on.”

Grayson looked at the dashboard clock. It was 12:12. She was right. They were losing daylight.

He stepped from the car into the tall grass. He hefted the pack onto his shoulders and locked up his car. With several long, loping strides he was able to catch Abigail at the edge of the woods.

A shiver ran down his spine as he recollected the illustration from The Dark Mother and Her Children. He didn’t see any eyes watching him, waiting for him to step vulnerable into the woods. But he suspected there might be creatures here that he couldn’t see. This was Castle Cove after all.

Abby took his hand and pulled him into the forest. “I want us out of here before dark. Come on.”

The dense canopy overhead immediately blotted out most of the sunlight.

They hadn’t even gone twenty feet before he realized he was right about the low light. He’d suspected the covering in this part of the forest was thick, dappling what little sunlight they had.

In the Wayward Woods, he could walk until nearly sunset and count upon the light. The trees weren’t as crowded and the wide expanse of bright sky overhead invited hikers to linger in any of the beautiful, open fields surrounding the trails. Lake Trail, in particular, offered a gorgeous view for stargazing. And it was close enough to Sunset Park that one could linger well into the evening and feel relatively safe.

Here the trees seemed to stand almost on top of one another.

They are crowding in on us, he thought. He shivered again.

“We need to get to The Crone Tree within three hours if we can. We can make it if we keep a good pace,” he said.

Her head was up. Her eyes were bright. He respected her even more for that. She’d always been smart, probably one of the most brilliant students at their school, but her seriousness—when seriousness was merited—is what impressed him. Landon had been a jokester. He’d laughed at all the wrong moments and whenever the moments had been tense, like when Abigail’s father left town and never came back, he’d tried to use laughter to dispel the gloom.

“I don’t think we should talk,” she whispered.

Grayson agreed so they walked in silence.

First a mile. Then two. By the third mile, his mind had entered a sort of trance state as it often did when he walked. His thoughts flittered away and left him only with the sensation of the experience.

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