CHAPTER 27
When Kimmie finally stumbled onto the Glenn Highway, she realized that she was miles from where she’d started her circuitous meandering through the woods. She’d never have the energy to get all the way to the trooper’s station. Not now. Not like this. But it didn’t matter. She was safe. She’d make it. She and Pip were going to be fine.
She’d been carrying her brother, and now as the northern lights faded back to darkness, her last remnants of strength melted away to a deep, nearly paralyzing exhaustion. She was so close. She just needed to get to a phone. Some place where she could call for help.
But where?
If it was the summer, she’d have the light of the midnight sun to guide her, with sleepy tourists on their way to Fairbanks or Canada making their way up the Glenn. But n
