Chapter 9
Once the girls had a safety introduction by Denise the Firehawk mechanic and had their helicopter ride with Emily and Jeannie around the flanks of Mt. Hood, they climbed aboard their buses and were gone.
Watching twenty teenage girls group-hugging Evan had been a crackup.
Watching the gentle hug he’d given to Mallory had almost ripped out Krista’s heart. Or perhaps it had healed it. She didn’t even know anymore.
The camp felt unexpectedly quiet without them.
Krista went in search of Evan. Not in the showers, not in his bunk, not in the equipment sheds. She raided Betsy’s kitchen for a couple of roast beef sandwiches and sodas, grabbed a pair of sleeping bags and headed out across the gravel parking lot.
She found him in the only logical place, sitting on “their” fallen Doug
