Chapter 86

Abby

Vincent didn’t come down the steps immediately.

Neither did I get out of the truck.

We stared at each other through the windshield.

His face was older than my mother’s had ever been.

That was a strange thought.

Naomi had stopped aging in my memory years ago.

Vincent hadn’t.

He had lines around his eyes.

Gray at his temples.

A scar running beneath one side of his jaw.

But the eyes were hers.

Dark.

Warm when they wanted to be.

Sharp when they didn’t.

Kade turned off the engine.

“You okay?”

“No.”

“Want a minute?”

“No.”

I opened the door.

The cold hit first.

Blackridge was several degrees cooler than Moonhaven, and wind came off the lake hard enough to lift my hair.

Vincent finally moved.

He came down the steps slowly.

Not like an Alpha approaching another Alpha.

Not formally.

Like someone afraid that moving too qui