Hills of Shivers and Shadows (Frozen Fate Book 1) by Pam Godwin

Author:Pam Godwin [Godwin, Pam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heartbound Media, Inc.
Published: 2024-03-11T18:30:00+00:00

37

Wolfson

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As the clock strikes midnight, the shadows whisper and the shivers invade.

Disoriented, I spring from the armchair in the library and rub the sleep from my eyes. It’s too quiet. Too dark. Something isn’t right.

Sprinting into the hall, I frantically search the cabin.

Call it a sixth sense, but I feel it.

The moment we’ve been dreading has arrived.

Tendrils of paranoia slither through my veins, awakening a dormant terror I can no longer ignore.

Maybe that’s all this is. Paranoia.

Relax.

Only a few hours earlier, we were eating dinner together, and everything seemed normal.

Normal for Hoss, anyway.

The five of us sat before a feast of cured caribou and roasted vegetables from the garden. Denver watched from the head of the table, engaging us in idle conversation. He was his usual self, a malevolent force waiting patiently for the perfect moment to strike.

Kody and Leo put all their focus into tearing into strips of meat like savages. And Frankie, not eating, with her clothes hanging from jutting bones, only opened her mouth to demand a glass of bourbon. Just one drink, she argued.

Everyone ignored her. For good reason.

We’re worried about her.

So why is there an empty tumbler on the coffee table that smells suspiciously like bourbon and cherries?

Where is everyone?

After dinner, Frankie went outside to run. She’s been doing that a lot, and I know my brothers follow her.

Bored, I chose to curl up in the library and watch reruns of Friends until I fell asleep.

That was five hours ago.

Denver should be in bed, but his room is empty.

My brothers should be somewhere—conspiring in the basement, rummaging in the kitchen, beating their meat in their bedrooms—but the cabin is empty.

Where’s Frankie? Is everyone outside? At this hour?

Insides knotting, I decide to check the sauna next.

Until the toilet flushes upstairs.

Shit. I forgot to look there.

Changing directions, I spin toward the stairs.

The entryway door opens just as I turn, and Denver steps in, shaking snow from his perfectly combed hair.

“What happened?” I pause at the bottom step, gripping the banister. “Where is everyone?”

“Your brothers beat the shit out of each other. They’re cleaning up the destruction in the workshop now, and they better be quick about it. They’re leaving tomorrow to hunt.”

I let that sink in, my thoughts catching and hanging on words. Beat. Destruction. Leaving. And the one word he didn’t say. Frankie.

If they fought over her, which I’m certain they did, they would never admit it to Denver. So I move on to something he may know.

“Who let her drink?” My eyes fall to the empty tumbler on the coffee table.

“I did. Just one glass.” He scoops it up and carries it to the kitchen. In his usual fashion, he makes me wait as he washes the tumbler before returning. “She came inside earlier, her eyes red and puffy. I know she cries, but she’s good at hiding it. When she came in, she was unguarded. Visibly shaken. I caught her in the aftermath of…something. So I made her a drink. Then I went outside and found your brothers trying to kill each other.

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