Chapter 13
A two-lane highway wound out of town, leaving the houses and streetlights behind. Mark zipped past darkening fields and finally entered the Two-Lakes State Forest, which deepened on both sides as they drove through. The moon had already risen. Glaring headlights illuminated the wet pavement and occasionally blinded him, as they flew by on the other side of the road.
He glanced at the figure huddled against the edge of the passenger seat, her face plastered against the window.
He’d hurt her. He’d made sure she felt unwelcome and tried to make her feel incompetent. In that, he wasn’t sure he’d succeeded. But, overall, he’d made sure she didn’t trust him. And now, she needed him, because she had no one else besides himself and Paul to turn to.
Annie shifted her body within the
