“You’ll be able to’t severely assume he had something to do with this, are you able to?” Lucas scoffed. “Shane is on the market proper now along with her, doing god is aware of what and also you wish to stand there and throw accusations on the individuals who care about her?!”

“Don’t increase your voice at me, sir,” Banner snapped. “I’ve to discover all avenues in a state of affairs like this.”

“However the—,” Lucas tried once more however he was shortly silenced.

They have been trying within the flawed place, and we didn’t have time. Scarlett didn’t have time. I glanced at Lucas, whose face was flushed with rage and his jaw was working time beyond regulation chewing on invisible gum. By the point they acquired all the knowledge from Toby and moved on, it may very well be too late.

Lucas turned and our eyes met. The identical ideas rising in my thoughts have been mirrored again at me via him and my coronary heart leaped. It will be a danger, and the probabilities have been slim but when we may get to Scarlett’s home and discover the placement of the cabin, then we may go and depart the police to do no matter they wished.

Lucas’ forehead lifted barely after which we each moved. Lucas coughed a number of instances and sagged barely into the wheelchair. I moved round to it and gripped the handles.

“Lucas is due a check-up so I’m simply going to…” I completed by sending Toby a wink who stared after us, barely confused however he was far too busy with Banner to do something about it. I’d ship him a textual content once we had one thing and never earlier than.

“You had the identical thought, proper?” Lucas requested as we made it down the hall and out of sight, selecting up the tempo as soon as Lucas was freed from the chair.

“Discover the cabin?” I requested.

“Discover the cabin.”

35

SCARLETT

How lengthy has it been?

It was inconceivable to inform. By the point we’d reached the cabin, it was mild, however it had grown darkish since then and sooner or later, I fell asleep. Shane let me sleep via and it was nonetheless darkish after I wakened. My coronary heart fluttered consistently, giving me a sensation of breathlessness whereas the urge to cry lingered like a relentless risk on the sting of my consciousness.

The one sliver of hope got here from Shane when he finally sobered up and the burden of the state of affairs appeared to hit him. He went from drunkenly pacing and aggressively cursing at me, to sitting within the nook by the window staring out into the darkish after I wakened.

The chilly was biting.

The cabin hadn’t seen use in years and was in fairly a state of disrepair. The wind whistled via the again bed room, so Shane had shut the door, however with out logs within the hearth or drapes on the window, there was no heat available. I’d huddled on the sofa beneath a threaded blanket the place I’d fallen asleep via sheer exhaustion however now, I used to be awake, and actuality was setting in arduous.

Was Sebastian, okay? Lucas and Danny?

My thoughts performed like a carousel, spinning between the horror of them mendacity lifeless in my cottage and the reassurance that somebody would have discovered them. Lily maybe. I used to be extra involved about them than myself as a result of I had executed this. Shane was my accountability and I had been careless, proper? Why else would he be doing this?

The gun remained in his hand, hanging free from his hand between his legs as he stared out, and some candles flickered on the desk, casting ominous shadows over his face.

He was going to kill me. A part of me was sure about this. Nausea churned in my intestine, and I wound the free thread of the blanket round my fingers till it was tight sufficient to harm. Solely then did I discover the braveness to talk.

“Shane?”

He grunted at me however didn’t search for.

“Shane, what are we going to do?”

The usage of we was rigorously planted. On the loopy drive up right here, he had responded to us collectively extra positively than anything so I used to be going to proceed that for so long as I may. Possibly if I may get him to place the gun down or depart the room, I may make a run for it and lose myself at midnight.

“Shane?”

“Shut up,” Shane spat. “I’m considering.”

The gun shifted barely as he tightened his grip on it, and I wound the thread tighter round my fingers. The loopy glee had pale from his face. As an alternative, he appeared drawn and troubled. He’d shot two individuals and kidnapped me. If he had any sense left in that thick cranium of his, he needed to understand how fucked he was.

Chilly stole over my physique in a wave and I shivered, pulling the blanket tighter round me with my different hand. The drag of cloth caught his consideration and Shane’s head snapped up sharply.

“Don’t fucking transfer both.”

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