Chapter 30

Liam

I never anticipated ending up in this situation. And neither did Mia, or at least I felt confident that he hadn’t. At the moment, he was tossing and turning with a high fever. Mine was lower, or at least I was conscious. For all the good it would do us. Because while we’d both been out, the tent had been covered by snow, and I wasn’t sure how I could get us out without filling the one shelter we had with snow.

Reaching over, I tucked the sleeping bag higher around my husband’s shoulders in the darkness. I had flashlights and a lantern but didn’t want to use up the batteries when I had no way of knowing how long we’d be in here. Walking away from our village was the hardest thing I’d ever dreamed I’d have to do, but now, listening to my husband’s harsh breathing, I knew there were worse things.

Fortunately, our stomach symptoms weren’t too bad. Yet, at least. We’d both been vomiting, one of the reasons, along with the weather, that we’d decided to set up camp here. But that had e