Chapter 43: Won’t Wait Around This Time
The same feeling came back again.
That shudder as if he was being watched or listened to even when he made no sudden movements. Even when he held his breath or when he was sure the shadows cloaked him in its embrace, hidden from the eye.
But it wasn't fear that crawled into his heart or raced in his veins that shuddered him. His soul core, mind, heart, or whatever one may call it, a seed inside of him defensively whispered to him that he was sensed.
That the person in the streets, lurking like a hunter, knew he was near.
Exact location?
Hope wasn't too sure about that.
But Hope's instincts haven't been wrong so far.
However, if he was out of sight, then his Flaw of making him all but a distant memory would drive them away. Right?
Step...Step...
'Ah dammit...'
Unless they reach to him first...which, unfortunately, was happening as they headed close in his direction.