Chapter 23Eli was ready to burst into tears. He didn’t want to say Elora was heavy, but she wasn’t skinny. She changed the world by putting away one bad guy after the other, keeping everyone safe, and it made her more beautiful than any woman on a cover of a magazine, but he wasn’t strong enough to carry her for long.
It was him being too weak, not her being too heavy, but it didn’t change the fact that he had to stop and rest every thirty feet. He was cold despite being sweaty, and he was ready to sit and wait for her to come around.
How long she’d been out, he didn’t know, but not nearly long enough to wait it out. And what if Jaecar changed direction or stopped searching until they had daylight again? Though he could see well in the dark, couldn’t he?
He hefted up Elora again and too
