Chapter42. The Witch3

But there wasn’t a warning in my blood, so I stepped forward with Brax holding me, helping me wade through the ankle-deep mush. It was so dark I could barely see, but that didn’t seem to be a problem for the wolves. We stepped forward. The only sound breaking the night was the sloshing of our footsteps. “So creepy,” I breathed, and Kai snickered. Derik turned to me. “Don’t say that to her. She loves this godforsaken place,” he muttered in disgust. “To each their own, I guess.” I grimaced, trying to find a house or something to indicate where she actually lived, but I couldn’t see anything. Until I saw two glowing eyes peering up out of the water. I sucked in a breath as it moved through the water, shuffling closer to Brax. He looked at me, then to where I was staring, wide-eyed. He hissed at it, and it came further out of the water. It was a fucking alligator. A huge one. I froze and Brax growled at it in warning. It paused and looked like it was taunting him. “I’ll turn you into a fuc