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.”

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

hand away but Max surprised me by

me to be his Luna

until Grayson came for me. I felt like

us I watched him and he watched us constantly keeping each other in

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Chapter 124

the train facing each other but he was four seats

went white but I put my hand over hers. “Look,” I pointed at a magazine and she nodded trying

color,” I grimaced and

looked at all the outfits and the

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

it off the train and were walking through the station when Simon came up on my

I huffed and placed a loose stand of hair behind my ear as I looked

like a wolf. He was one of Deacons

going to come after us sooner or later. More sooner than later we were

a travel car.

her brother moved behind them and grabbed the knife from his bag

as soon as I did they picked up pace. I shoved the two against the wall and spun around lunging at the larger of

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 as he

and bolted.

and sobbing but I grabbed my backpack off the floor. “We need to go and quickly, I

mountains and if you didn’t have a good nose it was impossible to get to.

knew that we were in Montana

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

gas

and

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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