Chapter 23

• Surprisingly she had calmed down from seeing Devin. She wasn’t sure why she had started to go to him. Hadn’t I just decided to avoid him? Even though her heart had been dancing inside her chest when she’d spotted him, she noticed he wasn’t too quick to come in her direction or wave or—anything. That was a good thing, right? It removed the possible complications of her staying on his property, for the time being.
• As the pictures uploaded to the laptop, she closed her eyes and lifted her face towards the sun. Rayne was in no hurry to leave. So, she wasn’t a professional camper and the night still scared her half out of her skin, but she loved the peacefulness the surrounded her. Leaning down, she picked up the container of nuts beside the chair. Tomorrow she would try cooking on that camp stove, for now though, she could live on nibbling and snacking all through the day. She popped an almond into her mouth and looked to the path that led to the lake.
• Every muscle in her body stiffened, she swallowed the almond almost whole, grimacing as it scratched her throat on the way down. A wolf, a very large wolf was standing in the path looking right at her. She didn’t want to look away and was afraid to move. It was no more than ten feet away and she knew there was no way she could make it to the little cabin that was more than ten feet away. Now what? Her heart was sitting at the bottom of her throat, and she was fairly certain the almond was stuck there too, as she attempted to swallow it again.