CHAPTER 5
Ginger rolled slowly to a stop about half an hour later, and they stared at the giant pile of snow-covered rocks that completely blocked off the road in front of them. The upbeat Christmas carols playing in the background were directly at odds with the hopelessness of the view in front of them.
“Well, s**t,” Eli said.
That about summed up her feelings on the topic as well. Now what are we going to do? She couldn’t get him to his friend’s cabin, if that’s even where he was headed, and she couldn’t spare the couple of hours it would take to get him back down the mountain to Rivers End or wherever he had come from.
The snow was still coming down hard, and they didn’t have long until darkness would descend on them. Plus, when she’d bailed on going up with the group, Ginger had pr
