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“Shut up,” Hedges ordered. “Just shut up, or I’ll kill her. I will.”
Noah’s mouth clamped shut.
“Put these cuffs on,” Hedges ordered and tossed a pair of handcuffs to Noah, who caught them on the fly.
Please use them to hit him! Don’t do as he says.
But Noah complied. The handcuffs clicked. No one showed up.
The few people in the restaurant couldn’t see them.
The occasional car on the road passed by.
No one pulled in.
No one came out of the damned motel.
“Test ’em,” Hedges ordered in a low voice, the gun’s muzzle never moving. “Snap your wrists apart, Scott. Do it!”
Noah did. The handcuffs held, the chain taut.
“Get into the car,” Hedges said. “Now. Back seat.”
“What car?”
“Her car, damn it,” he said, and Remmi realized they were only a few feet from her Outback.
Oh God. No. This couldn’t be happening.
“Don’t do it,” Remmi said.
Noah kept his gaze on Hedges as he opened the back door of the Subaru.
“Get in! Now,” the gunman ordered fiercely.
Please, someone come.
No one did.
Heart pounding, panic setting in, Remmi watched Noah slip into the interior. Before he sat down, Hedges moved swiftly, slamming the butt of his gun into the back of Noah’s skull. Noah crumpled with a low groan.
In that split second, Remmi tried to run. She screamed.
“Shut the fuck up! You want me to shoot him?” Hedges said, turning the gun on Noah’s inert form. “You do as I say, or I’ll gut-shoot him and you can watch him bleed out. Is that what you want?”
“Why are you—”
“Shut up, and get in the car and drive.”
“I can’t. He’s . . . he’s got the keys.”
“This is your car.”
“But he was driving,” she said in a panic. “They’re in his pocket.” She started to reach for Noah, but she tripped over the curb, stumbled against Hedges, and fell to her knees.
“Jesus, what’s wrong with you?” He yanked her to her feet, then to her horror, slid her phone from her back pocket. “Now. Get behind the wheel.” He reached into Noah’s pocket and extracted the keys, then handed them to her. “No funny business. Believe me, I’ll shoot him. Now. Drive.”
Telling herself she was being a fool, she did as she was told. In the time that it took him to open the door, she tried to start the car and knock him down, maybe run over him and lay on the horn, but he was onto her and kept his pistol aimed at Noah, so she merely waited as he climbed in.
