Chapter 41

Colton catches my eyes in the rear-view mirror and looks away quickly, a sadness hitting me right in the heart as his emotion silences me with a swift shunt of my stomach. I immediately know the pain and sorrow in what he doesn’t say. He avoids my eye as I stare at the back of his head, feeling him, reading him as he overcomes my senses. Tasting his hesitation and sorrow. “There is no one else, is there?” I state blankly, numb shock weaving through me and hitting me with the gravity of this situation. He’s in constant link with his pack so that they would know about survivors, and I’m guessing the fact they’re chasing down the vampires who ran, and no one but Colton is shepherding one of us away means they already checked. The weight of reality settling on my shoulders to drag me back down to numbed calm. He shakes his head, unable to look at me, and I catch his furrowed brow and the gleam of moisture glazing his eyes in the mirror over his head. He ups a gear, pushing the truck to dan