Chapter 26: The Date
They didn’t go far. Levi assured her they were still within ear-shot of the cave, and that if the pups so much as yawned, he’d know about it, even though she couldn’t hear a thing. Holding her gloved hand in his, Levi led Amanda down a slight slope and to the foot of a pond that had frozen over.
“Wow,” she said. “It’s beautiful.”
The dusty-blue color was a postcard frozen in time, with frost creeping over the vegetation dipping into the lake, and mud iced into rigid white designs. Everything seemed still, as though the world were sleeping, every sound muted by cloud cover and snow banks alike.
Levi brushed off a boulder for her to sit on. As he was leading her over, he paused, then turned his head quickly to the left. Amanda was about to ask what had startled him when he pointed, crowing next to her.
“Look,” he whispered.