Chapter 12 · free to read
Nine nights. The mountain had already started counting without them.
She had signed a false report, doctored a range, and lied to a state biologist. Loading the rifle was the first honest thing she'd done all week.
The intelligence was real. That was the frightening part. Renna had never once bothered to lie for free.
He had knelt in the ring and taken the terms. He had not agreed to arrive as anybody's son.
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