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“I can see her outline.”
Her?
“Rin?” Zane called quietly.
There was a sharp intake of breath followed by the scraping of a chain, and then the redhead came into view.
“Zane? Maliki?” she practically cried their names. “Get me out of here!” The demand was drenched in pure desperation.
She looped her fingers through the fencing, revealing nail beds with no finger nails. Her only clothing was a dirty bra and pair of underwear, no shoes—covered in dirt and severely underweight. I could count her ribs.
All of that aside she was alive and that was more than enough reason to make the other things seem trivial.
She couldn’t have been with these people long either, they’d have ate her long ago.
“The padlock.” Addy stated. “How do we get past that?”
“Sue has the key. She keeps it in her front pocket,” Darrian helpfully supplied. “It will open lock around my ankle too.”
“Which one is she?” Zane questioned without missing a beat.
“She’s an older woman with gray hair. We need to hurry before the bu—.”
I cut her off as I realized she was in the kennel alone. “Where is Ace? The panhandler said he was with you.”
“Gone, they took him last night.”
From Zane, “Took him where?”
“The pot.”
Elongated silence.
“The one in the center of the yard?” Maliki asked.
“They keep them there for forty-eight hours. It cooks the organs how they like them,” she replied quietly, repeating what Maliki had already told us.
With no time to get emotional, Zane turned towards us. “This bitch is in the house. We have to go in.”
“No, Z! Don’t leave me here,” Rin begged, shaking the fence.
He walked over and spoke softly to her. “Calm down, I’m not leaving but I have to get the key.”
Addy eyed them with an unreadable expression on her face. Blinking after a few seconds she cleared her throat and reached behind her, hand coming back with the Glock, Zane had taken from her when they first met.
Honestly, I thought she was going to shoot his ex fling and be done with it, but that idea seemed to be solely my own.
“We can get the key. You stay with her.”
An immediate, “Fuck no.”
Zane whipped his head around and glared at her as if she’d just suggested something abhorrent.
“We’ll be quick,” Addy replied, already backing up. “Remember I did things like this long before you came along, pretty prince.”
I bit my lip to keep from laughing at her taunt. That would only antagonize him and we really didn’t have time for angry Zane.
He stepped away from the fence just as she hurriedly ducked beneath one of the sheets.
