“There are people just under a hundred miles from here.”
But what good did that do?
“Here it is—I could leave you and try to follow the river out and bring
help back.”
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Which, he thought, sounded insane. There were animals. They would
come, and if they thought Derek was dead…. He was defenseless. They
might attack him. Even small things—ants, bugs.
“I can’t leave you.”