Chapter 5
The room and the window across from the bed were still dark when Iris woke. The clock was dark, too, yet another power outage. She sat up, trying her best not to wake Gena, but she felt a hand on her shoulder.
“You know, don’t you?”
“Did I say something?” Iris said, snuggling with Gena again.
“Yeah. ‘We have to go,’ over and over again. I still don’t know which town, but I feel it in my gut. We can’t stay here any longer.”
“I’m sorry, Gena. About waking you, dragging you into this craziness, not making any sense half the time. You don’t have to go up on that damned mountain with me, you know. Your brother’s place in Hidden Springs has plenty of room, and he’d be glad to have you with him.”
Gena laughed, the low, throaty sound of it stirring up heat through Iris’s body despi
