CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
It’s a peaceful feeling.
I know that sounds ridiculous, but it is.
Running in the woods, with just the person beside you, knowing time is running out, knowing the day is coming, knowing you have one goal: to get where you need to be before they find you.
It calmed me in a way I hadn’t felt in so long.
The part of my soul that needed to know my purpose, to understand the why or why not, the part of me that reared up if I wasn’t following my morals, that part was quiet. That part was content, because it was right to run free. It was right to go to Milwaukee. It was right to confront the man who’d been the first monster in my life.
There was no longer any confusion in my head or heart.
But Brooke’s breathing was already uneven behind me.
She’d let me take the lead,
