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

a big duffel bag from the back of

dark to the edge of

with the same precision he does. And the

is easily ten

low hum of

we walk, so this roadway is maintained in

some way.

and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he

hope that I’m

would be the ultimate coup,

father

Hmm.

uneven stretch of ground and

he’s holding me in place.

uh, I’m okay.”

grunts and keeps

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clouds lift, and moonlight floods this area, showing too many

by a curving

“It’s beautiful.”

he

intended to say

my eyes adapt more, I see the straight

that where we’re

and picks

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