LOGINLevi"Let me help. I know how to get us out of here."Falco stood there with his hand still on Ava's arm, looking at me like he'd just offered to help carry groceries instead of admitting he knew how to get us out of a death trap.I stared at him.Didn't know whether to laugh or just break his face
AvaWe weren't talking.I walked behind Levi, watching his shoulders stay too tight. Every few steps he'd shift his weight, trying to be subtle about it, but I saw the wince anyway.He was hurting.Falco walked beside me. Quiet. Actually walking for once instead of hanging off my shoulder like dead
Levi The asshole still couldn't feed himself. I sat on that log watching Ava spoon more of that root mush into Falco's mouth, and every second of it made my skin crawl. We'd gotten the deer—took us three hours tracking it, another hour gutting and cleaning it, and now the meat was hanging from a
Frost smiled. "Yes. That's why you followed me, right?"I stared at him.He'd been different after he was free from Catherine. Different after Susan was gone. He'd actually talked to people. Smiled. Made jokes—bad ones, but still. He'd lived more in those last few months than he had in the previous
HildaThe bench was warm under my legs.I sat there watching the reeds sway, listening to them whisper against each other in the breeze. The air moved easy here, nothing heavy about it. No rot, no blood, no stink of fear or death. Just grass and sun and the distant sound of water I couldn't see but
Flashback to earlier that morning - the hunt decisionLeviHours ago, when the sun had barely started filtering through the canopy, we'd stopped at a stream.Ava had been half-carrying Falco for the past two miles, his arm slung over her shoulders, her body taking most of his weight. Every time I lo







