Chapter 485: The Dock

I drove this time, instead of taking a boat, parking out of view of the main gate, pulling off near the edge of the Patterson side of the mountain. I was going to be longer than twenty minutes, the hike in to the dock at least that from where I did little to hide my car's presence. Maybe I'd reached the point I didn't care anymore what Marie and her family thought. Getting caught might have been refreshing. But I do know that walk to the fence, the tree-climb to get me over (had experience with this kind of thing, didn't I?) and subsequent walk around the edge of the manicured forest leading to the lakeshore wasn't done in stealth. If anything I was being deliberately noisy.

Come at me, bro. I was so done.