chapter 46

I’d never thought about returning here, let alone bringing a visitor so I honestly never asked. It made sense that there was a work around.

We drove in silence for a while and Alec turned from the dirt road onto a narrow, paved road. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the trees around us were bright green and the sky was a brilliant blue. Under different circumstances, this would be a fun way to pass the time. If only we were headed somewhere else. Fuck. Anywhere else would be better.

I watched out the window as Alec took us onto larger roads, and through a few smaller twisty roads. I had no idea where we were going and I stopped trying to pay attention to the route. With my terrible sense of direction, I’d need to take this exact trip several times before it sunk in.

When we stopped, panic gripped me. How could we already be at Wolf Creek’s border?

“You know what to do, right?” Alec asked as he killed the engine.

It seemed impossible now that I was facing it. “What if I rea