Asher
Should I just stop making promises? It seemed like every time I told Alison I would do something, the opposite happened. I saw her before Alison did and the first thing I wanted to do was to prevent her from taking a look. While she was struggling with the cage door, I noticed both the boys starting in the same direction with empty, unfeeling eyes. One look at what they were staring at and it felt like my heart was lodged in my throat.
We were late! Why did we waste more time going around the fence several times? Why didn't we decide to dig sooner? What if we had arrived ten minutes earlier? No, what if I hadn't allowed Trevor to take me to the pack boundary that day? The root cause of all this was me.
Joe immediately passed out in my arms when I picked him up, which I was more t
