I stood frozen, staring at Quanah, not knowing what to say.
“What went through your head?” he pressed, and I kept looking from Seth’s crumpled body to him. He grabbed my shoulders and shook me. “Bridget, look at me!”
“I don’t know! I don’t know!” I shouted at him. “I told Seth it could be dangerous, but he assured me you’d increased security and that the entire tribe’s perimeter was safe.”
“What the f**k, you have no idea what happened here, do you?” He hoisted Seth’s body over his shoulder like it weighed nothing and, with a leap, climbed half the hill.
I stared up from the bottom of the ravine, shocked at what he’d done, but even more stunned that he was going to leave me there just because he was mad at me.
I waited a few seconds and looked around at where I was. The mud had swallo
