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Cade
As he made his way up the steep incline, he tried to remember what she’d been wearing.
Khaki pants. Those old hiking boots. And the jacket. The bright green jacket. s**t, he thought. How am I going to find a green jacket in the goddamned Oregon wild?
Still, he kept on. He heard Elijah and Aiden behind him. Occasionally, he looked back to check on them. But he had no doubts that they were just as committed to finding her as he was.
They came upon the first bundle of hikers, and he saw the internal struggle as Aiden began to help them. Every instinct in Aiden told him to keep on, to look for Lily, but he knew he couldn’t.
“I’ll find her,” Cade called to him as he kept climbing the hillside. “I promise.”
By the time he got one-third up the summit, doubts started to creep in.
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