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.”

you Max it was really truly nice to get to know you and I hope you find

pull my hand away but Max surprised me by bending

expected me to be his Luna and his wife and maybe in another world he would have been

Montana and hopefully, Max would let us stay until Grayson came for me. I felt like an absolute ass going

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

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Chapter 124

We got on the train facing each other but he was four

and sat on the other side of us and Ashely went white but I put my hand over hers.

her color,” I grimaced and

and

been through in the last 24 hours she had learned a lot about her world and what the people we

the station when Simon came up on my side I almost pushed him away but he whispered in my

probably waiting to get us alone,” I huffed and placed a loose stand of hair behind

like a wolf. He was

come after us sooner or later. More sooner than later we were about to exit the

a travel car.

over to her brother moved behind them and grabbed the knife from his bag as best I could

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

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 had

and bolted.

need to go and quickly, I hurried them

I remember Max said his land was protected by mountains and if you didn’t have a good nose it was

any interference it wasn’t likely the only 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

drove for hours we didn’t stop unless it was for when we did

gas

and

brought up Max’s face immediately. The mountains smelled singularly of spruce except for

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