TWENTY-TWO
THERE WERE SOME TREES UP AHEAD. Once they were hidden among them, Harry pulled over to the side of the road and stopped the truck.
“What are we doing?” she asked, a mixture of scared and exhilarated.
“I haven’t seen him in a while,” Harry said. “I won’t take any chances. Stay here.”
Staying there wouldn’t get her answers. Harry got out of the truck and started back toward the Beast; she was quick to leap out after him.
“No,” she said, falling into step beside him as he passed her door. “I won’t just sit here and wait.”
“Because you don’t trust me,” he said, unlocking the Beast to jump up inside. “Do you think I will learn something and withhold it?”
“Yes,” she said without any hesitation.
She didn’t go inside, just watched Harry open one of the overhead cabinets and reac
