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.”

big duffel bag from the back of the SUV and then

the dark to the edge

see with the same precision he

me his night vision is easily ten times better than mine. I let him lead

and there’s a low hum

so this roadway is maintained in

some way.

want to ask where we’re going and more importantly, why. But this wolf won’t reveal anything he isn’t ready to and there is no point

I’m not

ultimate coup,

on my father or my pack in some

Hmm.

slide on some uneven stretch of ground and in a flash,

holding me in

I’m

grunts and

3/4

and moonlight floods this area, showing too many stars overhead

bisected by a curving

“It’s beautiful.”

is,” he

say

my eyes adapt more, I see

where

and picks up

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