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

the back of the SUV and

the edge of the mountain top.

the same precision he

his wolf’s eyes tells me his night vision is easily ten

a low hum of

we walk, so

some way.

where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t

I’m

would be the ultimate coup,

my father or my pack in some way.

Hmm.

some uneven stretch of ground

he’s holding me

I’m

grunts and keeps walking.

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moonlight floods this area,

curving stretch

“It’s beautiful.”

he

hadn’t intended to say that

trail, there is a flash of reflection. As my eyes adapt more, I see the straight lines of a cabin, and more glints of the moonlight on

where we’re

nods and picks

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