Chapter 40. Hunted

Rae POV

I slept fourteen hours. When I woke up, my head had stopped pounding, my nose had stopped bleeding, and Wade was asleep in the chair beside Doc's clinic bed with his boots still on.

I lay there and looked at him for a while.

The girl with the gray eyes. The one Atlas keeps.

I wasn't scared anymore. That was the strange thing. Somewhere between the culvert and the clinic, the fear had burned down into something else. Something hard and cold and very clear.

I was done being hunted.

***

We met in Judge's office at noon. Judge, Wade, Eli, Brick and me. Brick had asked to be there. After last night, nobody had the heart to tell him no.

Judge had a whiteboard on an easel by the