Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 117

Annette POV:

I had woken up just before noon. The sun wasn’t quite high enough for it to be but it was just about there. I couldn’t smell if anyone was nearby but I knew I had to go.

Since I had jumped into the water I didn’t bother saving any food so I had to scrounge. Eventually finding some poor birds to tear apart. I have just had luck with them. They were small so I had to take some bone in some bites but it was food. The first day I had been freezing but that was just because of the water still clinging onto me.

The second day I realized how warm it was. When I gave birth there was snow on the ground. Now it was all melted. It must be April then I hadn’t realized it but spring had come.

I kept walking trying to find some form of civilization if I got to a town or a house I could try and convince them to let me use their phone to call him. I could hear his voice and then.

I almost started crying at the thought of hearing his voice and being able to speak to him. To ask him how everyone was there. I wanted to know so badly I wanted to be there with everything inside of me my whole soul craved for

them.

Still, I didn’t let myself say the words. I didn’t let myself acknowledge the horrible truth of who was waiting for me and all the time I’d clearly missed instead I kept moving looking for a stream or a river of some kind. By the trees and the ocean, I realized I was on the West Coast in the United States too there was still snow up in Canada, I couldn’t tell where on the west coast I was, It was more northern but I didn’t know if I was in California, Washington, or Oregon.

If I knew I was in Washington I’d just try and get as close to the border as possible. I kept walking and walking running and running still changing my path here and there until I heard running water off in the distance.

I froze did I truly hear that, I walked forward something in me said to turn around there was something off about this. I knew I needed to go towards the water but I felt it in my body to step back. I decided to listen to my gut and simply follow the noise instead. Eventually, I came up on a hill and was able to look down and I saw one of them hiding in the trees.

instead of trying to hunt me down they went to the nearest water source. I looked around trying to figure out what to do. I needed

weren’t careless and poked their head out to

down the hill and decided to fun the sooner I got away from them the better it wasn’t the best considering I hadn’t had a sip of water in the past 12 hours but I needed to get away. I kept my eyes to the north as I ran trying to see if anyone else was nearby looking about for me. I

through the trees inching align and keeping hidden. I didn’t see anyone and at this point, I was parched. My hand was shaking and I knew it was because I was thirsty soon

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Chapter 117

up. I was thirsty truly starved for hydration. I heard a twig snap on the other side and he had a gun pointed at me. I did it without thinking but I jumped into the water. I tumbled in head first and bobbled down the stream the river flowed a lot faster than it looked and off I went. I kept my head down as long as I

Eventually, the current slowed and I swam over to the river’s edge. I sat for a moment and drank some more water before

at the river I needed something to eat and fish would work really well. I fashioned a damn of sorts from some down branches knotting them together to make it hard for a fish to swim through. I placed it in

I miss you

soft in the back of my head I dropped the fish and it flopped about. My heart in my head

Grasyon

still felt the

down

Grayson!

be this hard for me to get to him. In fact, I had seldom had to

my fish and ate and kept walking throughout the night staring up at our moon and calling to him as

stumbled.

Grayson, I’m here

state for him to get through to me. I closed my eyes and tried to clear