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“Carry him?”

“He’s coming with us,” Emerson declared.

“Are you nuts?”

Harry started groaning, leaving no time for us to debate whatever plan Emerson had come up with.

I tied the rope around one ankle, left a small length, then repeated tying the other side, and finished with the duct tape covering the rope.

The shrill of Harry’s ringtone startled me and start to rouse him. More grumbling and twitching.

“We have to leave,” Emerson told me. “And he has to come with us before someone comes looking for him.”

Shit. Okay. That made sense.

Emerson bent down and pulled on the ropes, testing my efforts, and when they didn’t budge, she smiled and shook Harry.

“Wake up, dickhead. Time to go.”

“What the—”

“Come on, up you go,” she cut him off.

“I’m gonna—” he started to growl, but Emerson spoke over him.

“Shut up, asshole, and get up.”

The phone stopped ringing and his mean, hard eyes found mine. “Neither of you will live through this.”

I shivered at his statement and glanced at Emerson.

I hoped like hell she knew what she was doing.

Chapter 30

It had been a struggle but we loaded Harry Landry into Jeremy’s car. I had Harry’s phone in my hand and was scrolling through his open apps.

“What are you looking at?” Emerson asked as she navigated down the narrow road from the cabin.

“He has some sort of navigation app open,” I told her. “The blue dot is moving with us.”

Harry chuckled from the back seat and I fought the urge to look at him. I wanted to know what he found amusing but there was something in his eyes that creeped me out so bad I couldn’t look.

“Fuckin’ amateurs,” Harry sneered. “The great Zane Lewis thinks his shit is squared away but he forgets to scrub a phone. Classic.”

What the hell did that mean? Scrub a phone?

“Here.” Emerson tossed me her phone. “Turn that off.”

I powered down her phone and the blue dot disappeared.

“Holy shit, he was tracking you,” I whispered.

From the back seat came, “Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner! Maybe you’re only half as stupid as I thought.”

“Power off all the phones. Now.”

I did what Emerson instructed and now we were flying blind with no navigation.