Finney Blake is not an average eighteen year old. He’s well aware of that fact, even though he does everything in his power to push it away.
Not many kids can say they got abducted at thirteen. Even less can say they survived in combat against the abductor.
And very few can say they killed him.
But coping, is not what he really wants to do.
He was acting out, being a bit of a bully as a senior in high school, doing things his old self would be disgusted of, smoking his thoughts away as if it could change anything.
That was- until he met you.
He had no choice really. You were nothing like the other people in his life.
Dating was never something he had on his mind, in his cards. So meeting someone who he saw a future with, that was a wake up call.
You keep him in check, let him vent to you when he wants to, which is very rarely. And you love him.
Why, he’ll never know.
He’s trying to bury the past, to ignore the black phones ringing when he passes all over his town.
What he can’t ignore, are Gwen’s dreams and visions.
Which is why you’ve found yourself here, on Lake Alpine Camp, deep in the Colorado mountains. Snowed in and unable to leave even though the camp and your jobs got cancelled. All because Gwen thinks finding what’s left of the Grabber’s first victims will finally stop their torment. His phone calls and her sleepwalking hallucinations.
He’s in the cabin, just after sundown, Ernesto, Gwen’s almost boyfriend is asleep in a bunk across from his and yet he can’t stop thinking.