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“Yes!” I hiss. “Now, reach up and grab that phone and sheers. If you want to redeem yourself. Then do it now,Uncle.”
Chapter 27
Sebastian
Wecometoastop at the start of a dirt driveway. We’re in the middle of nowhere, off of the highway and down a farming lane. We’ve been crawling along looking for this path that supposedly leads to a warehouse for what feels like hours. That’s on top of the following messages and texts sending us all over the county.
“This has ‘trap’ written all over it,” Luca says.
I look at my phone again; there are no new messages since the location drop. “I know, but that's all we’ve got.”
We sit there for a few moments. The car idles and purrs while we search our brains for a plan.
“I don’t like it, but I think we should head along cautiously with our lights off.” I scratch a frustrated hand through my hair. “I don’t know what else to do.”
Luca nods. “We don’t know how long this road goes on before the warehouse—”
“Luca, if you want to get out now, you can. Just leave me to do this stupid crap. You’re already in enough trouble because of me.”
He smiles and nods. “Thank you, but no thank you. You still swarmed a fully manned warehouse for me in a similar situation. We will proceed with caution.” He looks back in the backseat at the twin shotguns he made us grab from a safehouse. Those and the grenade.
“Okay,” I say. It comes out of me like a sigh. I turn the lights off and wait a few minutes for my eyes to adjust to the darkness. We roll our windows down, and I turn onto the road.
We begin heading along in the night, weaving along the trail and heading between the pointing shadows and bulbous shapes of black. I’m thankful for the light from the tree cover having been trimmed away from the road, but it also makes us completely visible. We listen intently and watch the horizon for any sign of the building coming up. Our car sounds like a tank rolling along in the silence, and I realize that I’m not hearing any animal noises. No toads or frogs, forest chatter, or birds calling. It’s completely silent. Even they’re watching us.
Soon, a singular light comes up in the distance, and we roll to a stop.
“What do you want to do?” Luca asks.
I frown. “I dunno. I guess I’d like to see—” There’s a slight movement, and it makes me pause. I can see a man outside the door under the light. He hasn’t spotted us, otherwise, he wouldn’t be on his phone. “Maybe we should proceed on foot?”
“Maybe the best plan.”
The man at the door stops. He stares directly at us for a few moments. Both Luca and I freeze. I grip the gear shift in my hands and put it in reverse…
But then he continues smoking. Pacing back and forth.
“I didn’t like that,” Luca says. “I think he knows things we don’t.”
My phone pings.
It’s a trap C.
“Oh shit,” I utter. “That’s Carlos… But that’s—”
The man whips his head up suddenly and throws his cigarette away. He wrenches the door open as another guy runs over, pulling up his zipper. We glimpse pandemonium inside.
“Fuck it,” I say, turning on my lights and shifting in gear to move forward.
That’s when blaring spotlights come on behind us.
A moving wall of illumination closes in on us, and Luca and I barely have time to brace before the truck barrels into us and smashes us off the road.
Chapter 28
Mimi
“You’rewhat?”Carlosrepeats.
