AARON

The slaug hter I find at the cabin is worse than the carnage I left behind at the factory where we fought Tobin and his men.

All of the guys I left behind to protect the property are dead.

Every single one of them.

Starting with the guys manning the gate and outer perimeter, all the way up the mountain to the cabin itself.

I can’t even imagine the number of wolves it must have taken to overwhelm and defeat my most highly-trained men.

My heart feels like it’s being slowly torn out of my chest as I desperately run into the cabin, only to find more of the same.

My dead men, and their last line of defense.

Worse, Lillian wasn’t spared.

I know in my heart she would have done everything to protect Ethan right up to her last dying breath.

I st agger a little as I walk through the cabin

I don’t know if I can bring myself to walk into Ethan’s nursery.

know if I

my infant son in his crib,

and nothing in the world will be able to pull me back from the

so I force my legs to carry me the rest of the way until I’m standing

as if the tide of violence

there’s no sign of blood or other trauma left

then I start noticing a few odd

that’s usually on the rocking chair and a number of other items

back out into the main room of the cabin,

kitchen, while Ethan’s bottles of milk are made up for the day, Labeled and still stored in the fridge, some of his spare bottles and the tin of

relief is so acute, I have to drop

they also took a whole bunch of

but at least now I know he’s

our missing son and the immediate need to get him back as soon as possible, I know I have to

sooner,

none of this would’ve happened if I’d told

would have used Ethan as bait today at the factory instead of my

to do with Ethan’s abduction. That he thought I would be dead by now, and had organized to have my son snat ched at

But to what end?

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