Chapter Eleven
“Up, Alexa,” Will said. He tugged on her leash. “Up. We’re almost there.”
Alexa sat up and yawned. She hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep last night. She must have dozed off. She slid off of the thin mattress she’d been lying on to the edge of the little flatbed trailer that the mattress in turn had been lying on. Once she got that far she had to wait for her master to help her down onto the ground. Having your hands cuffed behind you limited what you could do. There was loose sand under her feet, but she barely noticed because Will’s hands were on her body. She put her head down and leaned against him, wanting to prolong the moment. If doing that also meant that she was postponing something she wasn’t looking forward to, so much the better. Will held her in his arms for a momen
