Chapter 23

The road winds back and forth as we gain elevation. The

mountain is steep enough to ski and it’s heavily wooded. The headlights cast shadows through the pines and fir.

I’ve never been here before.

I wonder if Aaron has.

He brings the vehicle to the mountain top and parks. “Get out,”

he tells me.

slowly unbuckle my belt. It’s significantly colder here than where we’d been and I didn’t think to bring a coat. I don’t have my medications. My phone’s about to die.

This is the type of deserted stretch of forest where you’d go hunting for the weekend.

Or where you’d bury a body.

After the things I’ve said tonight, I have to wonder why Aaron has brought me here.

n a battle of strength against this wolf, there would be no

contest.

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says quietly. “It’s this

bag from the

the edge of the mountain top.

see with the same precision he does.

his night vision is easily ten times better than mine. I let

owl calls and there’s a low hum

we walk, so this

some way.

importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point in arguing

just have to hope that I’m

be the ultimate coup, though, wouldn’t it?

kills me, pins it on my father or my pack in some way.

Hmm.

some uneven stretch of ground and in

holding

uh, I’m

and

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up as the clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars

curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

he agrees.

say that

adapt more, I see the straight lines of

where we’re going?”

picks

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