Falling Into Darkness: The Under Series Book 1 by Dakota Lake Read Free Book Online Page A

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muscular for his lean physic, he was dressed in a long sleeved black shirt, black jeans and black
boots everything about him was dark. Where had he come from?
Are you okay?” he asked.
I turned back to look over at the riverbank, the stranger was no where to be seen. I looked at the boy
who was looking in the same direction as I was.
“I thought I saw something across the river.” I said in a calmer voice looking back at the boy.
“Like what?” he asked curiously.
“I dunno it looked like a person, maybe?”
I realised Gunner had stopped barking or growling I turned to look for him but he was gone I
glanced around quickly and found him sitting next to the boys feet. The boy looked down at the dog
and scratched the top of his head.
“It was probably a tall deer, no one comes out this far. What are you doing out here?” he asked
sounding concerned, but he had said no one comes out this far. What was he doing out here?
“I was just going for a walk with the dog,” I stepped back, he could be anyone. I couldn't help
myself from asking. “What are you doing out here?”
“I have a place near by. You shouldn’t be out here on your own, it's not safe,” he said looking at me,
I wished he would take his shades off so I could see his face properly.
“Why because of the wild cats or wolves?” I took another step back, dangling the leash trying to get
Gunner's attention to follow me but he was firmly rooted next to the boys feet.
“No I've never seen any out here but still your dog didn’t seem too happy he obviously saw
something.” The boy said looking across the riverbank again.
“Come on, I’ll walk you back.” he walked past me and Gunner followed by his heels. I tried to
remain calm, how did he know where I lived or where I had walked from? I started searching the
ground for anything I could use as a weapon if I had to, not that a small twig would do much
damage.
“I'm guessing you live in that old cabin further up the river?”
Micah had told me hardly anyone knew it was there, who was this boy? He definitely wasn’t
dressed for hiking through the woods.
“I didn’t think that many people knew it was there.” I slowly trailed behind him catching up.
“They don't.”
“So how do you know about it?” he shrugged.
“I've lived in this area for a long time.”
We walked along in silence, I realised it wasn’t from him not speaking I couldn’t hear his thoughts
that or he wasn’t thinking anything which was unlikely. This was what it was like around Micah.
The boy picked up a stick and I noticed a skull ring on his middle finger. He chucked the stick for
Gunner who happily fetched and returned it to him. Every so often I would steal glances in his
direction, but I think he knew because a small smile played n his lips each time I looked at him. We
soon arrived back at the cabin and I felt somewhat disappointed we had arrived back so quickly.
“Thanks for walking me back. Do you have far to go from here?”
He shook his head to my question but didn't say anything.
He stood there watching me, at least I thought he was watching me it was hard to tell with the
shades covering his eyes. I started walking towards the cabin, but turned waiting for Gunner.
“Come on Gunner, ” But the dog stayed next to boys feet. “Looks like you've made a friend,”
“Go on,” he said to the dog. Gunner stood up and trotted over to me.
The boy was looking in my direction and a slight smile crept onto his lips, I couldn't help but smile
back. He stepped back and turned around walking back the way we had just come. I stood for a
minute watching as he walked back along the river path. The wind had picked up and was blowing
my hair around my face I could feel small rain drops starting to fall. I turned and jogged back to the
cabin, Gunner ran to the back door and straight in through the dog flap. I opened the back door to
find Seth bent over rummaging around in the fridge, I could only see the back of