CHAPTER 25
There wasn’t time to look back. Jade had to find her daughter.
She stumbled out the cabin door, praying to reach Dez before anybody else did. Sapphire had fled the cabin while Jade was fighting Gabriel, which meant she could be anywhere. Jade had to be ready.
And she had to protect her daughter.
She screamed Dez’s name, uncertain if she was making noise or not because she couldn’t hear anything, not the crunching of snow beneath her feet or the sound of her panting or frantic yells.
“Dez!”
Previously, during the fighting, her vision had blurred. Narrowed. Now, her periphery slowly returned to focus. “Dez!”
She scoured the snow for tracks. Where had her daughter gone?
Jade still had the gun. Gabriel would never come after her again, but Sapphire might. She had to hurry. H
