I didn't say a word in response. I couldn't. Kelly had told me she'd been sabotaged, poisoned deliberately. For some reason, I didn't trust Steve, or rather, I didn't trust anyone right now. I couldn't accuse him without proof, but I needed to know what exactly had happened. Who had access to Kell
The boar's momentum carried it forward, and I felt searing pain as one of its tusks caught my left arm, tearing through fabric and flesh. But even as it struck me, I swung my right fist hard into its snout, putting all my weight behind it. The boar squealed - more surprised than hurt, probably - a
DANNY Running up that mountain, searching for Kelly, my heart was pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears. I kept calling her name, my voice echoing off the rock faces. "Kelly! Kelly, can you hear me?" I looked around frantically, swinging the flashlight beam across the trail, into the fores
"Kelly, are you all right?" His eyes scanned my body frantically, looking for injuries. "Are you hurt? Did you break your wrist? Did you break your arm? Can you move?" I shook my head, feeling tears prick at my eyes for the first time since this whole nightmare began. I'd been so focused on surviv
It emerged from the vegetation, and my stomach dropped. A wild boar. A massive one, with coarse dark hair and curved tusks that gleamed even in the fading light. 'Oh God. The wild animals Brian mentioned. This is really happening.' 'Of all the ways I imagined dying, "gored by an angry pig in Haw
'I can't stay like this. If I remain here, no one will find me.' But even as panic threatened to overwhelm me, another thought pushed through: 'No. Danny will look for me. Danny has to look for me.' I clung to that certainty. Danny might be cold and distant and upset about this morning, but he c