“Ssshhh!” Ashleigh whispered, quieting the boy by her side.
She held him back with her arm, pressing herself against the rocks as hard as she could and trying to make them both invisible.
Ashleigh waited until the wolf had passed and she couldn’t hear his steps anymore.
“Alright,” she whispered. “We can move now.”
The boy looked up at her sadly.
“I’m slowing you down, Miss Ashleigh,” he said.
Ashleigh got down on her knee before him, placing her hands on his shoulders; she tried to give him a bright smile.
“You are not slowing me down, Abe. I am the one that said we should hide, and I’m the one that keeps making us take breaks. That’s all me, bud.”
Abe smiled back at her.
Ashleigh had never expected to find the boy that had announced his desire to marry her in this game. She didn’t even know he had gotten his wolf.
