Page 63 of Only One More Lie

I tried to push it away. I couldn’t let the hunger continue. The hunger, after a while, would begin to control me. Then it would make me do things I didn’t want to do, to behave in ways I didn’t plan.

I liked to be more in control.

But sometimes, the urges were like animals clawing at my insides.

Once they were unleashed . . . everything was out of my control.

That wasn’t my fault. I didn’t care what people said.

People have been telling so many lies. Lies were the fuel some people run on.

Those people deserve to die also. Was there anyone honest out there anymore?

If there was, I haven’t met them.

I ran my hand over my face, and a thought hit me.

A beard . . . I hadn’t used a beard on my snowmen yet. Maybe that would be a nice touch.

It just so happened that both of the men inside the cabin had beards.

They weren’t a part of my original plan. But people were always telling me I should be more flexible.

Maybe this would be a good start.

These men had practically given me the idea themselves.

Now I just needed to rearrange a few things on my plan.

My lips curled into a smile as I pulled my hat down lower on my forehead and hurried through the woods.

CHAPTER 31

Duke drew his gun and ducked behind the window. “You heard that too?”

Ranger already had his gun drawn also. “Sure did.”

“It sounds like we have a visitor.”

The question was, was this visitor the friendly or unfriendly type? Was it the person who’d been staying here? Or someone more sinister? Or maybe the people staying herewerethe sinister ones.

There were still entirely too many unknowns right now.

“I’m going to open the door on three,” Duke told Ranger quietly.

Ranger nodded in acknowledgement.

Duke counted down and threw the door open, stepping outside as he did.

The dark, cold Alaskan landscape glared back at him. But no one was there to bum rush him. No obvious signs of danger stared them down.

Just a still, snowy subarctic forest.

But Duke wasn’t ready to let down his guard yet.

He’d definitely heard something out here.

“Hello?” he called.

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