The ground leveled out so abruptly, Dani wasn’t ready and sprawled onto the rocky surface, gasping for air that still wasn’t there. Never would be there.
“You did it.” Spook had to yell to be heard above the building wind. His eyes were wild, his face lit from within. The storm had cut off the sun and sky above, cut off the ground below, leaving only the mountaintop.
Leaving her there alone with a wild man.
The wind beat against her as if it longed to throw her back down for daring to come. Hair whipped her face in tiny, stinging lashes. Terror whipped her insides, but distantly, as if Spook had drugged her again.
“Can we go now?”
He shrugged off his pack, then helped her off with hers.
“The storm is almost on us.”
Almost? The guy had a serious problem with reality.
“We’ll have to
