~HAZEL~

The cameras flickered back to life, their unblinking red lights piercing the cave, staring straight into my soul.

I could feel the weight of viewers settling over us, invisible but suffocating.

The promise I'd made to Ashton, the one where I'd given him permission to take what he needed from me to survive this nightmare, kept replaying in my head.

I knew it would cost me everything the second we stepped out of this cursed forest. My reputation, my privacy, the fragile ...