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.

I see the

my infant son in his crib, it will ruin

broken, and nothing in the world will be able to pull

to carry me the rest of the way

and completely untouched, as if the tide

and there’s no sign of blood or other

noticing a few odd

usually on the rocking chair and a number of other items are

go back out into the main room of the cabin,

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 baby formula are gone, along with

to life inside me, and my relief is so acute, I have to drop to

bunch of

make it any better or easier, but at least now I know he’s

immediate need to get him back as soon as possible, I know I have to tell Leah

have told her sooner, I regret

none of this would’ve

would have used Ethan as bait today at the factory instead of my mate, and my son could have

makes me wonder if Tobin somehow had something 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 the

But to what end?

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