“How in the hell does something like that get out here?” Jerrik peered through the trees and brush before scanning the ground around them. “There’s no drag marks.” His nephew’s eyes darkened. “It would take someone with a lot of strength to carry this thing through the woods.”
Hagen looked from his brother to Magni, his face giving nothing away. “I think we should focus more on how it got like this once it was here.” His eyes dropped down to the body at their feet. “Or before it was brought here.”
The mangled remains of a decent-sized goat sat under the same tree where a bear nearly took Hagen’s wife Rhea’s life almost a year earlier. But this was no bear that hurt this animal. This was something far worse.
Slashes of an almost surgical precision were cut into the animal’s hide. The slices were clean and careful.
And blood free.
“It had to have been drained before they brought it here. But those cuts...” Jerrik’s eyes narrowed on the goat, his stance tight. “Your guess is as good as mine.” He shook his head at the poor creature. “Who in the hell would cut something up like this?”
Magni slowly stood up, unable to take his eyes off the animal. There was only one answer for who would do something so sick, so depraved.
“A monster.”
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You can't hide from the past forever.Sometimes it comes back to bite you.Twenty-five years ago Christine tried to spare Magni the pain she saw in his future even though it meant he would never be hers.He didn't listen.Now she carries a burden no one else can see and that he refused to hear. The truth of what happened to his wife.Magni is a bitter man. And it's his own damn fault. He lost his wife and cut off the only person who ever put his own happiness before theirs. For years he's tried to spare Christine the reminder that he exists, hoping to ease the pain and guilt he put on her in a moment of weakness.But it's been hard.And he's tired of pretending he doesn't want her.Can Magni right his wrongs and make Christine his?Or is his future as unfinished as his past?
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