Chapter Nine
It was getting dark when Alexa woke. She lay quietly for a slow count of thirty, listening for any sounds that didn't belong. There weren't any. Nonetheless, she slowly and carefully pulled down the camouflage sheet she was under to take a look around before she sat up. She was alone.
She'd only intended to take a short nap when she'd holed up here behind a fallen tree, but her internal clock must have been messed up by all her activities of the past few days. Well, it would probably stay messed up until she got back to civilization. There wasn't much she could do about that. She stood up and stretched, feeling a bit exposed, since she was not only outdoors but naked.
It had been too warm under that sheet for her to sleep comfortably with her clothes on. She kept her bare
