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Saige
Somehow, I bottled up my frayed emotions and focused on putting one foot in front of the other as Flynn clasped my hand in his and led me down to the rushing river. Neither of us spoke, not that I would have found words.
My head ached, my cheek smarted, and my heart beat heavy in my chest as the adrenaline slowly ebbed from my bloodstream. Shivers wracked through me, and I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering.
Cool breezes stirred my hair, our quick footfalls crunching the pebbles lining the path.
Flynn dragged the canoe closer to the water, one end bobbing as he held it steady. “In.”
I obeyed, my shaking hands grasping at the sides while trying to settle facing away from him. A shrug of my shoulders slid my pack off my back and onto the canoe’s bottom between ou
