Chapter 407

Avery’s POV

Fiona was standing about ten feet away with a small basket hooked over one arm, looking at me like a deer in headlights.

I straightened up slowly, my harvested plants already tucked into my basket. I held her gaze while I tugged the gloves off.

“Are you the one who snipped off those plants?” I asked.

“What plants?”

I inclined my head toward the basket. Fiona sighed and moved the cloth aside. I saw only a small sandwich wrapped in plastic film, an apple, and a can of one of those zero-calorie seltzer drinks that were popular in the human lands.

“Having a picnic?”

She nodded and moved the cloth back over top. “Yes. I’m not on Evergreen soil, you know. I’m allowed to

be here.”

wasn’t telling you you had

at me. I went to walk away, but before I

if a small part of me was curious to hear what she had to say next. The last

glanced at her over my shoulder but didn’t turn

an

didn’t respond to that, although

was unnecessary. Everything. The comments about your instincts. The implications I made

turned all the way around to look at her, one hand planted firmly on my hip while the other held the basket at my side. “Yeah,” I said, narrowing my eyes.

see Bjorn that day,

my chin

am sorry,” she

a long moment. She kept staring

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