*Vanessa’s POV*
The walk back to the finish line was… not eventful. But my mind was racing like it was competing in a competition of its own. I walked side by side with Falcon, his arm laced with mine, as Erik walked behind us.
Falcon didn’t want the first thing the people saw be his own half-brother, so he made Erik move alongside the other man that had accompanied him, carrying the dead animal carcases.
It was hard for me to figure out just how many dead animals a single man could carry, but I didn’t want to spend too much time thinking about it. There were other things that needed my attention. Things like what Erik had told me about their being an unidentified, mysterious man in the woods that was following him. And other things, too, like… what Erik had told me, about how he’d let me ruin him if it came to it.
Was Erik falling for me? For Vanessa?
