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My hands slowed and my body stilled as more of the conversation from last night played through my mind, something about his words triggering a thought. It felt like a word I’d been trying to think of was on the tip of my tongue, and I was reaching . . .
“The best time to attack is when we’re at our weakest. We’re weakest when we’re alone. So, for now, none of my family is alone.”
“We’re at our weakest when we’re alone,” I whispered, catching Beck’s attention.
“What?”
“The meeting. The meeting, Beck, oh my God!” I gripped his arm, accidentally jerking the car. “We’re weakest when we’re alone. It’s the meeting, Beck.”
“Jesus fuck, Lil.
Calm down, what are you talking about?”
“Don’t you see? Teagan’s being taken during a meeting,” I nearly yelled, still gripping and shaking his arm, trying to make him understand. “Every Holloway member has to attend, so no one will be with her to protect her. It has to be during a meeting.”
“Shit,” he whispered, a frantic look suddenly taking over his face. “But I—we don’t know which meeting—”
“It doesn’t matter, you idiot. Let’s get her before they even have a chance.”
He shot me a look, then gestured to the clock on his dashboard. “It’s just after four in the morning. I can’t just barge into their house and take her. Finn would lose his shit and it would ruin everything. I’ll—Christ, I don’t know. I’ll figure it out. We’ll get her though. I told you we’d stop it from happening, and we will.”
“Let me call her, I’ll tell her what’s happening. She’s planning on running from here anyway, I’ll just have her make it look like she left Finn. We can figure out somewhere to hide her until she can leave.”
“You’re supposed to be dead,” he said harshly. “Even though Finn knows you’re alive, he knows you can’t have contact with the outside world at all—and that includes Teagan. If he answers the phone and it’s you on the other end of the line, we’re gonna have bigger problems than me barging in there to keep her safe from a kidnapping. Let me get us back to Holloway, and I’ll handle this.”
I settled back into my seat and pressed my head against the window. “Holloway’s the problem,” I breathed, too low for him to hear.
When we pulled onto the property, I reached into my bag, trailing my fingers along the hard edge of the folded paper over and over again before clearing my throat.
“Dare’s going to be at Brooks Street Monday morning,” I began, sliding out the note as I spoke.
The paper quivered in my hand as I stared at it, wavering in my decision.
I wanted one more day with him.
One more hour.
One more minute.
This letter confirmed I’d already spent those, and they’d gone too fast.
With a trembling breath out, I opened the center console just enough to drop the letter inside. “He’ll expect me to be there. Promise me you’ll get that letter to him.”
Beck stared at the console for a few more seconds before looking at me from under his lashes. “You sure about that?”
“It’s the only way I can truly say goodbye.”
“Then I’ll make it happen.”
I offered him a weak smile, then opened the door and set foot onto Holloway Estate. A heavy weight settled in my gut as I looked around the place I’d grown up in, knowing that this was the last time I would ever walk onto the property, and that the chance of leaving it again—alive—was slim.
I knew when I woke she was gone.
The bed felt empty and cold, and that heady electricity that clung to my skin when she was near was gone.
Even still, I pushed up from the bed to look around and quickly slid off the side, hurrying into my bathroom in search of the girl I couldn’t seem to get a grasp on.
My hands dug into the doorframe of the bathroom, my stomach sinking when I found it empty. Pushing away, I turned to search the rest of the house but slowed when I found a paper and pen resting on top of my dresser.
