Chapter 230

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

son in his crib, it will

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

I force my legs to carry me the rest of the way until

as if the tide of violence

empty, and there’s no sign of blood or other trauma left

start noticing

baby bag, car capsule, teddies, a blanket that’s usually on the rocking chair and a number of

back out into the main room of the cabin, forcing myself to ignore

in the fridge, some of his spare

and my relief is so acute, I have to

a whole bunch of stuff

better or easier, but at least now I know

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

told her sooner, I regret

would’ve happened if I’d

Tobin would have used Ethan as bait today at the factory

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?

have instructed his men to

obvious places to start, and I vow I’m going to rip apart every possible location from foundations to ceilings until I’ve found my son, or

condone child abduction, no matter how worried they are

I didn’t commit-and it helps me find

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