Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 124

Annette POV:

It had been two days since I was in Washington. That’s where I’d been held for the past few months that I hadn’t seen. my husband, my parents or my s….

I still couldn’t say it. I still had my heart filled with hope but I couldn’t bring myself to talk about that sweet little bundle I had given myself up for. I was so close to him and to Grayson and I still couldn’t think of my ba….

My heart would shatter inside me if I thought of all I had missed and everything I would never get back. If we somehow screwed this up I knew I wouldn’t be able to function to crawl back out of the hole that would encapsulate

1. me.

We got into the truck and the two men driving us took us to a bus station they got out and we took the truck to the train station. We left it there but after we got out Simon took the plates off and threw them away, a move id didn’t even think of.

“Okay so there’s a 5:15 to Vancouver,” Simon told us when we got in and my body reeled against it.

“No,” I told him even if being as close as I had been in the last few months to Grayson made me shine from the inside

out.

We couldn’t do that we couldn’t go the straightforward route. That’s what they expected we had to play this smart. So we needed to go somewhere else, someone we could trust or at least maybe I could trust.

Deacon would be watching anything and everything I had reminded him and I watched the blood drain from his face. He knew what would happen so slowly to him if Deacon ever caught him.

We decided then that we would split up. We bought hats and glasses and we agreed to take the 4:00 Montana.

Montana….

“My pack and I are leaving today. I know the tournament did not go as many thought but I wanted you to know Im glad you’re happy and if there’s anything you ever need you should just ask,” he reached out to shake my hand.

“I laughed internally at the formality of it.”

really truly nice to get to know you and I hope you find a Luna who’s

went to pull my hand away but Max surprised me by bending down and kissing my

his

would let us stay until Grayson came for me. I felt like an absolute ass going there but hopefully, after everything

came with me and Simon went ahead of us I watched him and he watched us constantly keeping

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Chapter 124

each other but he was four seats away.

came and sat on the other side of us and Ashely went white but I put my hand over hers. “Look,” I pointed at a magazine and she nodded trying to focus.

her color,” I grimaced and Ashely smiled at my comment.

the magazines and looked at all the outfits and the girl was well relaxed enough

what the poor girl had been through in the last 24 hours she had learned a lot about her

and were walking through the station when Simon came up on my side I almost

a loose stand of hair behind my ear as I looked over my

like a wolf. He was one of Deacons now doubt they had nice shoes

sooner than later we were about

a travel car.

behind them and grabbed the knife from his bag as best

out of the station and I pushed them towards a corner of the building where there was next to no one and as soon as I did they picked up pace. I shoved the two against the wall and spun around lunging at the larger of the two. His eyes were large and he tried to pin

chest and he stepped back and I plunged the knife up into him and under his arm making him howl in pain then as he dropped down I resisted it into his back before spinning into his partner but he

and bolted.

go and quickly, I hurried them over to the rod

didn’t have a good nose it was impossible to get to. Luckily we were

two bears who knew that we were in Montana and they didn’t know where we were headed from here they probably thought I was still going

meet me halfway. We drove for hours we didn’t stop unless it was for when we did I watched

gas

and

kept driving and then we got to the mountains and my mind brought up Max’s face immediately. The mountains smelled singularly of spruce except

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