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“Fuuck!” I shout as I reach the trees, the car coming into view. “Please say she’s in there. Please say this is all a joke,” I mumble under my breath.
Zay is already beside it and is checking the back seat. Then he lets out a series of curses as he stands up and puts his hands on his head. I know right then and there that Raven is gone. Taken from us. Again.
Hunter looks like he’s about to throw up as he jogs over to the car and gets in on the passenger side, leaving the door open. Then he leans over the back seat, collecting the iPad that Raven had and starts messing around with it.
I rush over to him. “What’re you doing? We need to go find her.”
He taps a few buttons. “Some of the apps and programs I put on her phone when I was trying to track that number for her have a location tracker, so if she keeps the phone on her, we can track where they’re taking her.”
I hold my breath as he checks. I feel like I’m about to explode and want nothing more than to have a razor in my hand right now. But I can’t fixate on cutting myself at the moment. I need to focus everything on finding Raven.
Hunter releases a loud exhale. “Okay, I think she does … At least, it shows that she’s moving.”
Zay stops pacing and lowers his hands from his head. “Let’s go get these fuckers then.”
A tiny bit of relief trickles through me as I jump into the back seat. Zay climbs in and peels out of our hiding spot, taking off down the road.
“Who the hell do you think’s doing this?” I ask as Zay speeds up the car. “Porter?”
“That’s my bet,” Zay utters as he slams down on the gas pedal harder, speeding down the road lined with trees. “I knew it was a bad idea to just bring her into our group.”
“We didn’t just bring her into our group,” Hunter says with his gaze trained on the map on the screen. “She’s been in our group for a long time.”
“We don’t know that for sure,” Zay argues, gripping the wheel tightly.
“Make a left right here,” Hunter instructs then steers right back to the conversation. “Maybe we don’t know that for sure, but we need to find out.”
“I know that.” Zay makes another sharp turn when Hunter tells him to again.
My heart, which has been beating like a damn lunatic in my chest, somehow manages to speed up. “Why does it look like we’re heading toward the … the bridge?”
Both of them grow quiet as realization dawns on us.
Whoever has Raven is taking her to the bridge. The bridge where, if she is Willow, she supposedly died. Is it just a coincidence or …?
“Does whoever have her know she might be Willow?” I state my fear aloud.
None of us say anything, but our silence is enough for me to know that they’re thinking the same thing. And when we turn onto the dirt road that leads to the old bridge that Willow and I once tried to escape on, my worst nightmare is right in front of me as I spot Raven standing on the ledge of that bridge with a masked man right behind her.
And just like that, I feel like I’m six years old again and am about to watch one of my best friends die.
I don’t think.
I just act.
Jumping out of the car, I run toward the river like my—her—life depends on it.
This time, I’m not going to let this happen.
This time, I’m going to save her.
12
Raven
I’min a large room with a massive, domed ceiling and a huge light decorated with crystals hanging from it. I feel in awe as I take everything in—the paintings on the walls, the fireplace, the way the air smells like cinnamon.
“This place is so big,” I tell my dad as I turn in a circle, taking everything in.
