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Levi McAllister
He’d never driven this far on his own before. Up to Flagstaff, yes, and on the dirt back roads that connected Jerome to Williams, off Interstate 40. But he’d never come back to the Phoenix area after Zoe Sandoval rebuffed him and instead chose Evan McAllister for her consort, and he’d certainly never passed through the city’s urban sprawl and headed out into the open desert once more, driving south to Tucson.
More than once he’d glanced over at the empty passenger seat of his hand-me-down truck, thinking to share a comment on the terrain with Hayley. But she wasn’t there, had remained behind in Jerome because both Connor and Angela thought she wouldn’t be needed on this trip, that it would be better if she stayed in Jerome. Perhaps they were right.
Levi supposed he’d
