104. Kaya

Kaya

I was so dam tired. I had been so exhausted the last few days that I felt like I could fall asleep anytime. The smell of elk made me nauseous. Cade was snuggling me when, all of a sudden, I had to throw up. I shoved his giant arm off me and bolted for the toilet. I had been nauseous, but this was the first time I had thrown up. I kept my head down, all the contents of dinner last night made their way back up.

I felt a huge hand rubbing circles on my back. Cade entered my mind. "Kaya, you okay?" "Yeah, but I think I am pregnant." I knew he was smiling. All the worrying about if I would actually be pregnant, and now here I was. At least one of my worries was gone. But I had so many. Cade had filled me in on everything he knew about Howi. I had to agree that Nieva and Cade were probably right that he was from the North. But my question was, why would he have come down south.

If he was from the North, he had to have run away on his first solo hunt. There was no other