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 see the

infant son in his crib, it

will be able

carry me the rest of the way until I’m standing in the

is pristine and completely untouched, as if the tide of violence didn’t quite reach this

empty, and there’s no sign of

then I start noticing a

teddies, a blanket that’s usually on the rocking chair and a

main room of the cabin,

up for the day, Labeled and still stored in the fridge, some of his spare bottles and the tin of

I have to drop to my

they also took a whole bunch of stuff

I know he’s not dead,

back as soon as possible, I

told her sooner, I regret that

this would’ve happened

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

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

But to what end?

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