Chapter 0340 Nina My friends and I jumped through the portal just before it closed. We came out on the other side in the dark forest, although we weren''t in the same location like the other times when I went through portals.


    As we slowly sat up and got our bearings, Luke was the first to stand quickly and look around.


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    “1 think I have a pretty good idea of where we are,” he said, pacing around.


    It was dark, so I flipped on the shlight on my phone and stood. We didn’t seem to be in any particr location of note; it was nothing but forest all around. I was a bit amazed that Luke was able to tell where we


    were, because to me it looked like nothing but pine trees.


    “Do you know which direction we need to go in?” I asked, to which Luke nodded and pointed ahead of us. “Let’s ￡0, then. We don’t have time to lose.” Lori, Jessica and Matt all nodded and followed. Luke walked at the front of the group alongside me as he guided us through the dark woods. I had no idea where we were going, but Luke seemed pretty sure of himself and I assumed that we would eventually find the Alpha King’s mansion.


    I wasn’t sure exactly what I would do if we found Enzo and Selena. Admittedly, I hadn’t thought much about it ahead of time. I was so preupied with preparing for our excursion and


    SW 719 BONUS subsequently opening a portal that I didn’t spend the time to make a n, and now it was very possible that we — could stumble upon Enzo and Selena at any moment.


    However, our way through the woods was slow. The darkness fell on us like a heavy nket, and the canopy of trees was so thick that the light from the full moon only broke through at random intervals. Even our shlights were only useful for a few feet in front of us, and none of us wanted to waste our batteries so early on in the journey. Not only that, but Luke kept making it extremely clear that having too many shlights could give away our location to people who we might have wanted to be hiding from, and our clumsy progress was making a lot of noise in the quiet woods.


    Finally, Luke stopped at the top of a small hill to let everyone catch their breath — mostly Lori and Jessica — and looked around with an almost confused expression on his face.


    I felt my heart sink as I watched his face.


    “You don’t know where we’re going anymore, do you?” I asked.


    Luke paused for a moment, looking embarrassed, before he finally shook his head. “It’s just so dark. I think I got us turned around at some point because everything looks the same in this goddamn forest.” I gritted my teeth. But I couldn’t be mad at Luke; it was dark here, darker than the forest back in Mountainview.


    It almost felt as though there was some sort of dark magic over these woods,


    like someone knew we were here and they wanted us to get lost. Or, maybe that was just what the werewolf realm was like at night. I didn’t know for sure.


    Either way, now that we were here, I somehow felt more at peace than before. It was almost as if stepping through that portal changed the course of everything that was happening... Or maybe, I hoped silently, Enzo , somehow escaped. If I was his mate, wouldn''t his safety bring me some peace even if I wasn’t beside him? “Alright,” I said finally. “I guess we should stop before we just get more lost. Can we build a fire, at least?” Luke looked around, squinting into the woods and pricking his ears to listen before he nodded. “Yeah. I think it''ll be


    okay. I don’t sense anyone around.” Lori and Jessica let out a small sigh of relief and dropped their bags down on the ground. To be fair, it waste and we had all hardly been getting any sleep as ofte. We needed the rest, and we needed to eat.