Jade Fern Grove the seeds of love have taken hold and if we don't burn together, i'll burn alone

He wouldn't have been able to sleep, anyway - not with all that he had on his mind - but the fresh scent of Adeline so near to where he and Khoe had mated was the final nail in that coffin. No, he would not be going to sleep. How could he?

Day was displeased, of course, but probably not as much as Adeline. She probably didn't want to see him - was probably quite embarrassed and maybe a bit disgusted. He wouldn't make her talk about it, but he did want to check up on her, see how she was doing. The girl had lost her father, and that couldn't have been easy. So he followed her scent. And followed it. And followed it.

And when he'd been an hour past the borders and her scent kept rambling on, Grayday began to run, his leg aching fiercely at the motion. But he couldn't stop - not when she was walking away - and the male ran until he reached the forest she'd gone into, were the trees were too close together to navigate quickly in the dark.

But he still walked on, bumping into trees when he wasn't being careful, his nose twitching as he tried to hold onto her scent. It was almost sunrise by the time he reached her.

"Where are you going?" he asked, his voice softer than he'd meant it to be. He wanted to yell, but he couldn't raise his voice at her. He couldn't.