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Chapter 22
Fox~
It wasn’t unit it was getting close to nightfall that I caved. Dating Kincaid was a continuous balancing act, and there was no safety net below my feet.
I knew this.
Still, the fall was worth everything that she made me feel whenever we were together.
Me: Where r u?
Just like that, she dropped me a pin, and I smiled until I saw that she was two fucking hours away from Serenity Springs.
Me: Seriously?
Kincaid: U asked
She was such a dick sometimes, I swear.
Me: Coming home anytime soon?
Kincaid: I’ll text u if I’m not coming home. I haven’t made up my mind yet
The thought of her not coming home didn’t sit well with me. There was no way that I was going to just let her be…gone. I needed Kincaid with me in an unhealthy way, and her leaving me with a ‘maybe I’ll be home’ was not going to cut it.
Me: Don’t move. Omw
I gave her a full five minutes to reply, and when she didn’t, I grabbed my keys, then got in my car to drive two hours to God knows where.
The problem with dating someone like Kincaid was that fearlessness of hers. There was being independent, and then there was Kincaid’s version of being independent. Most girls would be concerned with driving off to the middle of nowhere alone, but not Kincaid.
Never fucking Kincaid.
The drive gave me a lot of time to think about what we should do next, and it all came down to whether or not more than one person helped in the cover up. If it was just one person, then maybe we could do this with minimal bloodshed. The fact that Kincaid was willing to compromise was huge, and it gave me hope that there was a small chance that we could contain this without revealing The Order to the entire world.
Two hours later, I was pulling onto a tattered dirt road, driving slowly enough to appreciate the beautiful scenery. After a few minutes, I saw Kincaid’s Range Rover parked off the road, but I didn’t see her. Sending her a text that I was here, I waited for about a minute before I saw her coming from a trail that emerged from the cluster of trees that surrounded us.
“What is this place?” I asked as soon as she was near.
Kincaid grabbed my hand and said, “Follow me.”
We walked for a bit, and when we neared a plateau of earth that looked like cliff formations, my heart dropped. Kincaid kept walking, and I kept following, and we didn’t stop until we were standing on a leveled cliff that looked over the prettiest lake that I think I’ve ever seen.
Though beautiful, one small slip and that would be the end of it. It was troublesome that Kincaid came here. It was even more troublesome that she came here alone.
“A couple of years back, during a particularly bad episode, Saxton and I found this place by accident,” she explained. “He hates it when I come here alone.”
“I can see why,” I muttered dryly.
She turned to look at me, smiling. “I’m not suicidal, Fox.”
My hand tightened in hers. “I never said you were. This place is just dangerous.”
Kincaid looked back towards the view. “It is,” she agreed. “But it’s also so beautiful and peaceful.”
“I can’t argue that,” I returned, and I really couldn’t. It was beautiful and peaceful out here. “Do you come here often?”
“Not anymore,” she answered quietly. “At first, I used to come out here a lot. It helped…balance me. It helped me feel human. I’d think about my parents, Apollo, Saxton…” She turned back to look at me. “You.”
