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.”

nice to get to know you and I hope you find

away but Max surprised me by bending down

sure this isn’t what Max meant and I know that he had once expected me to be his Luna and his wife and maybe

for me. I felt like an absolute ass going there but hopefully, after everything that had happened to me, Max would

came with me and Simon went ahead of us I watched

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Chapter 124

each

of us and Ashely went white but I put my hand over hers. “Look,” I

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

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

girl had been through in the last 24 hours she had learned a lot about her world and what the people we love are capable of doing

had made it off the train and were walking through the station when Simon came up on my side I almost pushed him away but he whispered in my car. “Your seatmates

I huffed and placed a loose stand

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

come after us sooner or later. More sooner than

a travel car.

moved behind them and grabbed the knife from his bag as best I could without them

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

into him and under his arm making him howl in pain then as he dropped down I resisted

and bolted.

to go and

said his land was protected by mountains and if you didn’t have a good nose it was impossible to

in Montana and they didn’t know where we were headed from here they probably thought I was still

me halfway. We drove for hours we didn’t stop unless it was for when we did I watched the mirrors and when another car pulled up I grabbed

gas

and

brought up Max’s face immediately. The mountains smelled singularly of spruce except for a trail of pines. Guiding the

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