Amelia POV

The shove came hard enough to knock the air from my lungs.

I stumbled back, boots skidding against dirt and fallen leaves, my balance barely holding.

By the time I straightened up again, my heart already hammering, the space where the messenger had stood was empty.

He wad gone?!

Just like that.

Who was he? What did he want with me? Those thoughts came uninvited in my mind.

“What—?” Alexis turned sharply. “Where did he go?”

I scanned the trees around me, my ...