CHAPTER 96

Charlotte took one more step, then sank to the log on the ground beside her. She'd been walking forever and was cold. Very cold. The night was growing darker. The dark cloak around her shoulders helped but the temperature had dropped with each passing hour and she contemplated on whether to shift or not. The former would only make her prone to getting exposed as Krepe's daughter.

Krepe's daughter. When she decided some months ago to leave Forester, she had resolved to forget everything about her as well. Her mother had left when she was two and a half and only came back one time when she was seven, only to watch her father beat her almost to death. Since then, she never heard of her again. Rumors had it, she followed another man and even had a child for him because he was rich. Who that child was, she never bothered to find out because it was obvious she would hate the child. She didn't care. To hell with whoever it was that disrupted her childhood.

However, her mother's last words st