Wind seared the sides of my f*****g face. I followed Gaian and Sina’s father through the icy snow fields on the path back home. We hadn’t had to say much to him after we admitted that Sina was this man’s daughter. His eyes had gone wide, and he’d immediately stood and walked with us out of the mountain after we released him. Snow pounded down sideways around us, blocking my vision. With this kind of f*****g weather, I was surprised that I hadn’t almost fallen on my ass and down the mountain again. I was trying to keep my focus while standing next to the father of the woman I loved. I didn’t know what to f*****g say to him. I wasn’t good with these kinds of things. But … Gaian wouldn’t shut his mouth. They both went on and on and f*****g on, all the way down the path that we had taken he

