I wasn’t sure if anyone tried to catch me, but I fell to my knees in the snow.
My son was captured.
Aldrich immediately came and scooped me off the ground. I was ashamed to display such weakness, for he had been seeing me at some of my lowest points recently, but when it came to Theo’s well-being I could easily melt into nothingness if it was threatened.
“Cathy, maybe we should get you inside,” he said with some alarm, most likely concerned by whatever look I had on my face.
“I’d rather die,” I immediately spat out, shaking my head violently, “Let’s go.” I used his arms as balance beams before digging my feet into the ground. There had to be more footsteps trailing to wherever my son and his captor went.
Who knew if it was even a captor? He cou
