Page 77 of Craved By the Mountain Man

“Fine.”

“You don’t go inside.”

“Okay.”

“You stay where I can see you.”

“Okay.”

“If anything changes, we leave.”

“Fine.”

“If I tell you to move, you move.”

“Yes.”

I study her face.

She isn’t reckless.

She’s scared and doing it anyway.

That doesn’t make me like it.

I call Kaden.

He answers immediately.

“We found him.”

“Where?”

I give him the motel and room number.

“He contacted Hannah.”

A beat.

“Trap?”

“Yeah.”

“I’ve got two people near Wildwood.”

“Send them.”

“Already moving.”

I glance at Hannah.

“She wants to go in as bait.”

Silence.

Then Kaden says, “And you said no.”

“Several times.”