when her eyes adjusted to the dim light of the woods, she saw there was no bear.
A man stood before her instead, his eyes burning into hers with a passionate intensity. The same look she’d seen in the bear.
It was crazy, but she had no doubt they were one and the same.
The man was tall, with long dark hair, and so beautiful that it made her heart ache.
It was odd to think of such a large man as beautiful, but there was something tragic about him, something vulnerable in spite of the broad planes of muscle and the strong jaw.
“Ashe,” he said, his voice rich with meaning.
She stepped closer, not sure what he meant by ah-shah. Maybe it was another language. He certainly didn’t seem like a local.
He had just turned from a bear into a person. Could it be bear language?
This is a dream, she told herself. It has to be. Nothing happening makes sense, not even my own thoughts.
But when the man lifted a hand to stroke her cheek, she wished ardently that it was real.
His gentle touch sent shockwaves of need through her.
He definitely felt very, very real.
“I found you,” he murmured. “I’m going to bring you back to Faerie to take your rightful place.”
“Wait, what?” she asked.
“I know why you ran away,” he told her earnestly. “But believe me, no one thinks you were involved in that plot. And the Autumn Court will not hold you as a prisoner.”
“Plot?” she echoed stupidly, latching onto just one of the many things in his words that made no sense to her.
But he wasn’t looking at her anymore. He was staring over her shoulder, his eyes wide.
“He’s coming back,” he murmured, sweeping an arm around her. “There’s no time. We have to go.”
His hand was tight on her hip before she could take her next breath.
His other hand wrenched something off from around his neck and dashed it to the ground where it shattered on a rock.
Buffeting wind filled her ears, and her vision blurred.
She opened her mouth to scream, but the sound died in her throat as the world around her slipped away.
She squeezed her eyes shut until the wind died down.
When she opened them again, she was still on a wooded hillside. But there was no mistaking the fact that it was not the same one as before.
The trees were all covered in bright fall leaves. And the hillside sloped down to a meadow with a river flowing through it, instead of a parking lot.
They had not moved, she was sure of it. And yet they had gone. But to where?
A huge, lazy snowflake drifted down, and then another one.
“It’s snowing,” the man said wonderingly, as if that were the only odd thing going on here.
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