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.”

know you and

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

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

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

us I watched him and he

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Chapter 124

We got on the train facing each other

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

I grimaced and Ashely smiled at my

all the outfits and the girl was well relaxed enough

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

train and were walking through the station when Simon came up on my side I almost pushed him away but

huffed and placed a loose stand of hair behind

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

than later we were about to exit the train station

a travel car.

Ashley’s hand over to her brother moved behind them and grabbed the knife from his bag as

got 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

slashed at his chest and he stepped back and I plunged the knife up into him and under his arm making him howl in pain then

and bolted.

grabbed my backpack off the floor. “We need to go and

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

were in Montana and they didn’t know where

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

gas

and

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

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