My chest tightened.
I looked away.
Towardthe mountains.
Toward anything except those gray eyes.
Because if I looked at Beast...
Really looked at him...
I might tell him.
And once Beast McCoy knew the truth about Gerald...
Nothing in Eagle River would ever be the same.
6
BEAST
Something was wrong.
I knew it.
The second Sadie looked away.
The second she refused to answer.
The second I saw that gun.
Three years.
Three damn years.
And somehow I hadn't known.
I watched her trailer disappear down the ranch road.
Then I stood there another minute.
Thinking.
Trying not to think.
Failing.
The screen door of the ranch house slammed.
I turned.
Hank Walker stepped onto the porch.
Coffee mug in hand.
Gray hair.
Broad shoulders.
