Alone

Dave should have known better. He'd accomplished his mission. He'd found his family and rescued them. They were together again. There'd been nothing easy about it. He'd been shot at, beaten almost to death and had to detour two thousand miles to California and back. But he'd accomplished his mission. Now he made a major blunder: he let himself relax. He let himself believe the worst was over. That the trip back to Texas would be easy by comparison. Nothing's ever easy in the new world. The thousand mile journey ahead is full of traps. Death awaits and bad men hide around every corner. After everything he's been through, he should know better.