Chapter Five
“It’s beautiful out here,” Penny kept her voice soft and her eyes trained out the window at the passing scenery of white and evergreen. A few clumps of skeletal aspen trees showed here and there between the spruce trees, waiting for spring. Whenever that will be. She wondered if this frozen landscape ever truly melted. It would be better if it didn’t. Easier for her to keep hidden away. Jake would never think to come looking for her out here—in this.
She could hope. That was all she had now. The clothes on her back, the few things she’d tucked into her purse and hope.
The truck bounced along the icy snow-covered road in silence. She really appreciated Kann’s ability to just let her mind process and think. Most guys would’ve been cringing in the awkward silence. And as chatt
