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After killing off the first guard, Varian’s partner, whomever it was, took out the other guard who’d gone to help the second guard with a shotgun to the man’s face.
From there, the two of them had gone from place to place, stealing cars, money, food, and clothing.
They didn’t do it nicely, either.
How’d we know it was them?
By the slit throats.
I wasn’t telling Channing any of this, though. I’d done my absolute best not to let her near a TV. I’d bought her a Kindle for Christmas, and gave it to her two days ago when she’d complained about not having anything to do.
I’d lied and said the TV had broken, and Zeth had upheld my lie, going as far as looking for new TVs at Best Buy, but coming back empty handed. He’d told my mother and Channing that all the TVs were sold out due to it being so close to Christmas.
I hadn’t argued. The lie worked out well for me.
Plus, I’d gotten to go with him to help ‘shop’ for the new TV, which was when I’d gotten Channing’s present.
Presents.
I hadn’t given her the main one, yet.
I was waiting for some alone time, which didn’t happen much in the last two days, seeing as my mom was really milking the whole family Christmas thing.
“What do you mean you can’t find Andrew?” Channing’s asked shrilly.
“No, I haven’t heard from him since he called last week looking for the spare key. No. Yes. No. Where’s he been living all this time?” Channing wondered.
“Yeah, here he is,” Channing said before handing the phone to me.
I took the cell phone from her warily.
“Hello?” I answered.
Channing watched my face worriedly.
“Hey,” Colton said roughly. “I didn’t want to alarm Channing, but I’m pretty sure Andrew’s got himself in some deep shit.”
I gave Zeth a look from where he was sitting at the bar with my mom, and he nodded in understanding.
Leaving out the back door, I walked down to the dock with purposeful strides. I wasn’t worried about Channing following me. I knew Zeth would keep her in there until Colton told me what he had to tell me.
“Yeah?” I asked.
He exhaled roughly. “It’s bad, whatever he’s gotten himself into. He called and asked for money a few weeks ago, and I told him no. After the way he’d treated Channing, I just couldn’t bail his ass out anymore. I hadn’t heard anything from him until last night when he called to tell me his friend, one that he’d just helped get out of a bad situation, wanted him to take him somewhere. He was asking the best ways to get there to avoid thebusiest roads. Speed traps. He wouldn’t tell me who the friend was, either.”
A sick feeling started building in my gut.
“Where was he going?” I asked reluctantly.
“Florida.”
***
Three hours later.
“That’s too suspicious. He had to know his dad was going to say something to you.” Parker said warily.
“Maybe. Maybe not. What we need to plan for is him coming. We can’t count on Andrew being on our side. Varian’s been using him for months, feeding him the information he wanted. Andrew’s not innocent in all of this,” I said warily, scrubbing my hands over my tired eyes.
