Chapter 6
Remy’s original plan had included stopping at a grocery store close to the cabin to stock up on food and supplies. But the time they had spent at Kate’s getting Braden threw off their schedule, and the Jeep was pretty full of presents and Christmas decorations, anyway. A little before nine, they pulled over at a Wal-Mart outside Roanoke to grab a few things for the morning—eggs, bacon, bread, coffee. They would run out Saturday to really stock up, but at least there would be something for breakfast when they woke up.
On a good day, without traffic, the drive to Peaks Resort at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains took a good four hours. The Blue Ridge were part of the Appalachians, a long chain of mountains stretched across the eastern coast from Georgia to Maine. As Lane drove
