Retreat: A Dark Menage Romance (Loki Renard's Standalone Dark Contemporary Romances) by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2022-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

Tonight…

My leg still aches on nights like this. It’s not the weather. It’s not anything physical at all. It’s my body desperately trying to tell me to stay fucking clear of this kind of terrain.

“You okay?” Jason asks the question casually.

“Fine,” I say. I’m not fine. I’m angry, and I’m scared for Aslin. There are no snipers up here, but there are tigers and crevasses. There’s cold and wind, and those last two factors alone can be lethal, especially now that it is starting to spit. The weather can change in a second on this mountain range, and rarely for the better.

“Do we assume she stayed on the path? Or do you think she just wandered somewhere?”

“I have no idea. The path isn’t exactly well marked. Did she think the village was up high? Or did she think she just needed to go more or less straight?”

“If you have any idea what she thinks, you’re ahead of me. Girl makes no damn sense,” Jason says. We’re scanning the mountainside with binoculars and night vision. The potential area is vast, especially if she fell. It’s easy to twist an ankle on loose rock or encounter a prowling animal. There are tigers in these regions, but it’s not just tigers we need to watch out for. Mountain lions prowl this terrain, and they have been opportunistic before.

Aslin is not prepared to face the reality of the wild. She’s a snack for any predator who chances across her path and smells her particular brand of delicious femaleness. Which brings me to another possibility, bandits. People don’t think of bandits as a modern-day issue, but with villages dotted across mountains and valleys, and people traveling between them with wares mostly held on their backs or on the backs of beasts of burden, the opportunity for theft is irresistible to some.

“ASLIN!” I shout her name to the wind. It is carried a little distance before being carried back to me on the waking wind. It is starting to blow more heavily now, little shards of icy water being whipped against our faces. The wind chill factor is only going to increase.

“BRAT!” Jason calls out.

That brings a hint of a smile to my lips, but just a hint. This is bad. This is Very. Very. Bad. If we don’t find her soon, the weather could close in so bad we have no chance of finding her at all. Her chances of surviving without shelter out here overnight are basically nil. I am forced to face the fact that we might have lost her forever. It's not a useful thought, but I carry it with me every step of the way.

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