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.

from the back of the SUV

to the

see with the same precision he

is easily ten times better than mine. I let him lead the

a low hum of different

as we walk, so this roadway

some way.

won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point in arguing over

that I’m not

would be the ultimate coup,

on my father or my pack

Hmm.

uneven stretch of ground and in a flash, he

holding me

uh, I’m

grunts and

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floods this area, showing too many stars overhead to count and

curving stretch of river.

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

hadn’t intended to say that out loud.

flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin,

where

and picks up the

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