Chapter 16: Cops and CougarsKATE CHECKED HER WATCH AS the bus pulled into Thunder Lake. Seven forty-five at night and, being this much further north, dark already. Groaning, she rubbed her eyes, groggy from dozing off at the end of the four-hour ride.
Zach stirred. Almost simultaneously, Quincy woke, and she wondered not for the first time about the link the two seemed to share. The dog waited for a pat from Zach, then moved forward in the aisle to let him stand. Macready handled their carry-on bags as Kate helped Zach into his parka and off the bus.
She shivered as she stepped down. Colder here too. While the driver unloaded their suitcases from under the bus, she looked around the street. Thunder Lake was too small for a bus terminal, so they’d stopped in front of a one-storey orange-b
