Chapter 39:
We take the mountain road at seventy miles an hour.
Kael's driving with one hand on the wheel and the other on the horn because there's a truck coming the other way and he doesn't slow down for it. I'm holding the door handle and my heart's in my throat and Jax is behind us in his truck and none of us are talking.
We come around the last curve and there's the house.
And there's a car in the driveway.
It's old. It's brown. It's got a dent in the door and a crack in the windshield and a bumper sticker that says JESUS LOVES YOU BUT I'M STILL THINKING ABOUT IT. It's so old it's got a tape deck.
Kael stops the truck sideways across the driveway so the car can't leave.
I'm out before he's even got the engine off.
"Elara—"
I'm already walking.
There's a woman sitting in the
