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He made a motion with his hands to indicate the swirling, grinding, frothy water.
“No.”
“There has to be.”
“Really, there doesn’t. The rain makes this thing impassable. Until it runs off, there’s no getting across.”
“Can we go around?”
“We’re gonna have to.”
The sun had begun to fall by the time they reached a locale where the creek narrowed and died. The horses picked their way across the rocks that had tumbled downstream, driven by the force of the water.
“How far?” Teo asked. He was like a little kid on a road trip: Are we there yet?
Gina hoped they never got there. Although …
She lifted her gaze to the sky. She’d prefer not to get there in the middle of the night.
“We need to make camp.”
“But you said tonight.”
She indicated the still-raging water to their right.
“Oh.” Disappointment washed over his face. “Yeah.”
They were going to have to travel farther still to reach a decent place to camp. Here was too rocky, too damp.
Gina let her gaze trail over the horizon. She pointed to a grove of trees that populated a hill. “We’ll head for that.”
Teo looked at the sun. “It’ll be dark before we reach it.”
Gina urged Lady Belle forward. “I know.”
Night fell. Clouds shrouded the moon and the stars. Gina hoped the horses could see, because she couldn’t.
This had been such a bad idea. And she had no one to blame but herself. She’d never let her mind wander to the extent she’d let it wander today. Had her subconscious highjacked her brain, assuring that they wouldn’t reach the grave site as planned, gifting her with one more day of peace?
Giiiii-naaaa!
She started, her hands jerking the reins, causing Lady Belle to throw up her head and nicker.
“Something wrong?” Teo asked.
“You hear anything?”
Giiii-naaaa!
“The wind?”
Wasn’t it always the wind that called her name? Whenever it wasn’t the wolves that weren’t there.
The night had gone cool, brushing her face, stirring her hair, making her remember—
God, she so didn’t want to be here.
As if in answer to that thought, Lady Belle stopped dead, the movement so sudden Gina slid sideways and grabbed at the pommel to right herself.
