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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on,” he says quietly. “It’s this way.”

a big duffel bag from the back

dark to the edge

the same precision

eyes tells me his night vision is easily ten times better than mine.

a low hum of different insects. Gravel

we walk, so this roadway

some way.

to ask where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready

hope that I’m not walking to my

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

on my father or my pack in

Hmm.

stretch of ground and in a flash,

arm and he’s holding me

uh, I’m

and keeps

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and moonlight floods this area,

a curving stretch of

“It’s beautiful.”

he

to say

trail, there is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see

where

nods and picks up the

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