Badd Medicine by Jasinda Wilder

Author:Jasinda Wilder
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948445177
Publisher: Jasinda Wilder

8

Izzy

That man asked the most annoying questions. And by annoying, I mean questions I had no answers for, because I’d spent years avoiding thinking about things like…the future. Like…careers.

Gah. I didn’t want to think about this. I wanted to have my head stuck blissfully in the sand, my emotional faucet very firmly shut off, the past in the past where it belongs.

Ramsey Badd had a way of dragging things out of me that I hadn’t thought about in years, and that I didn’t want to think about now. Damn him.

He’d gotten me to talk about Mom, and I hadn’t really talked about Mom, even with Kitty or Juneau. Same with Dad.

Next thing you know, I’ll be telling Ram about running away.

Ha. Not likely. I NEVER talk about that with anyone, ever.

I found the creek easily and meandered upstream, passing the place where I’d caught our dinner. God, that had been so fun. Thrilling, exciting, and rewarding. This whole trip wasn’t at all like I thought it would be. I’d jumped headfirst into this without thinking, and really hadn’t had any idea what I was getting into, or what it’d be like. I just know I’d expected to hate it…and Ram.

Turns out, I don’t hate either one.

In fact, I was finding myself liking both the experience of hiking, and the man, a lot more than I had thought it possible to like anything or anyone.

I kept walking along the banks of the creek, staring into the water, lost in thought as I watched it ripple and churn, occasionally narrowing to a swift, white-water rush of water, other times widening to a wide, calm creek. Trees overshadowed it in places, brush thick against the banks here and there, forcing me to pick my way carefully through it, following the creek so I wouldn’t get lost.

I paused and really looked around me. How far had I walked? I wasn’t sure. Would I know how to get back to the campsite?

Crap, crap, crap.

I looked back at the way I’d come. I didn’t recognize anything, and I could see nothing but forest. Suddenly, the chirp of birds and the chuckle of the creek seemed somewhat less peaceful. I knew all I had to do was follow the creek back downstream—if I could find the place where I’d caught the fish, I’d know I was close to the campsite.

Only…

The spot I was standing in looked almost identical to that fishing spot. And, now that I thought about it, I’d passed by a few places where a big tree leaned out over the creek to spread a pool of shadow.

Shit.

I forced myself to breathe calmly, and not panic.

I had bear spray.

I had a compass.

I had no idea how to use the compass, though—knowing which way was north wouldn’t do me a damn bit of good if I didn’t know where I was supposed to go.

The wind kicked up, making the tall trees around me sway and sigh, dappling the sunlight and cooling the day. It was evening, at this point—the sun would be down soon.

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