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Chapter 22

Little did I know that that would be our last kiss.

Yep, foreshadowing again. I promise not to make a habit of it. Kind of takes the suspense out of things. Bummer for you.

In any case, the senator needed me, and so off I tore, the wind whipping across my exposed cheeks as I hopped, skipped, and jumped around the forest debris, the path growing narrower before disappearing altogether. I lifted my head up, following the sound of rushing water, the noise growing progressively louder the deeper into the woods I travelled

Quite a bit later, there it was, wide and wild, the white-tipped rapids glowing beneath the silvery moon. My heart began to pump harder. If this is where they’d been, if the roaring water had taken them away, could they have survived in a measly rubber raft? And what of the falls?