Chapter 46 Running For Me

• .JOE.
• I narrowed my eyes at Alerix. The way she conversed with those girls with her sweet smile and her eyes glinting with joy had me in a chokehold. I have never seen a girl with so much freedom and no care about the world.
• The girls she was speaking with waved her goodbye and she turned around, that smile not diminishing for a bit. She seemed to have seen me because her smile widened further and she walked towards me. I did not know what had me rooted to the spot but I watched her come towards me.