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“What?” Hyde shouted.
“Leave him,” Jesse grabbed him again by the elbow. “Don’t get dragged into playing one of his games. He knows shit.”
Hyde wasn’t sure. There was disbelief on his face. Confusion. Anxiety. He couldn’t tell if Culore was telling the truth or was he really just trying to buy himself some time before his cavalry came and set him free?
“Let me go and I’ll tell you where your son is,” Culore finally revealed the ace up his sleeve.
Upon the mention of his son’s name, Hyde turned pale. His hands just flew at Culore’s throat, squeezing him so hard that mere seconds separated Culore from certain death. Jesse managed to jump in once again, and pulled him off of their prisoner.
“Wait!” He tried to shout some sense into Hyde. “Don’t do this. He’s just trying to get to you. Don’t let him.”
“By all means, don’t believe me,” Culore smirked, “call your wife and you’ll see I’m not lying.”
Hyde’s jaw clenched tightly. All three of them knew that there was no reception here. After all, that was the whole point, to be unavailable to anyone else and just enjoy the weekend, just the three of them.
“But wait,” Culore frowned, “you know, I’d tap my chin with my index finger if I could right now, to be all important, but I guess I’ll have to make this work somehow. There’s no cell phone service up here, am I right? And, poor Isabella has been going crazy, trying to reach you, to tell you that something is wrong, while you’re here, fucking your girlfriend.”
Hyde looked like he’d seen a ghost. Rene gasped, pressing her hand firmly against her lips. Jesse just stood there, motionless. They were all frozen in time and space for a second, processing this piece of information they just received, that threatened to completely destroy their lives.
“Bummer, isn’t it?” Culore laughed out loud now, obviously having fun.
“You son of a bitch!”
Hyde smacked Culore right in the lower jaw with his fist. Blood spattered to the side. Jesse wasn’t even considering stopping him this time. Actually, he wanted to do that himself.
“What have you done to my son?” Hyde hissed, holding Culore up by the collar.
“It’s not what we did to him,” Culore spat out some blood, revealing red stained teeth, “it’s what we are going to do to him if you don’t set me free.”
“Maybe he’s lying,” Rene suddenly interrupted. “I mean, he could be just saying that to save his ass. He came here on his own obviously, so now that you beat him, he needed a backup plan, and what better choice than your son?”
Hyde loosened the grip he had on Culore’s collar.
“You can’t even check if Parker is alright, so he’s counting on you to believe him,” Rene urged.
“What do you think?” Hyde asked Jesse.
“She could be right,” Jesse eyed her, then Hyde. “Why else would he come alone?”
Hyde walked over to Culore, who immediately flinched seeing Hyde’s hand fly up. To his surprise, there was no punch this time. Hyde fumbled in Culore’s pockets, finding a cell phone. He took a quick look. The battery was full, but there was no signal. He checked the numbers, then seemed to find what he was looking for.
“I need you to stay here and watch him for 10 minutes,” Hyde gave Jesse clear instructions.
“What are you going to do?” Jesse asked.
Hyde glanced at Culore. He was listening in to their every word, probably waiting for his moment to try and escape. Hyde knew that keeping him here for much longer was a risk. They needed to transport him somewhere, where the others wouldn’t find him.
“I’ll just step out for a second,” Hyde said vaguely.
Jesse understood this lack of information. In case anything happened, at least Culore wouldn’t know what Hyde was doing while outside.
“What do you want me to do?” Rene asked, standing in the corner of the room, nervously shifting the weight of her body from one leg to the other.
“You’ll come with me,” Hyde told her, with a tone that wouldn’t allow for any disagreement or backtalk.
Rene just nodded and rushed over. Hyde took her by the hand and she could feel how sweaty it was.
Chapter 17
