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No.
I had to stop that.
I needed to focus.
As I thought that, I heard a door slam, dragging my attention to the side where the bedroom door was still firmly closed.
Someone was outside there.
And they would be coming for me eventually.
For nothing good, I was sure.
I knee-walked closer to that door, gaze focused on the little silver lock. My pulse quickened as I rose my bound hands upward, my fingers closing on the lock.
I swear the sound seemed to be amplified loud enough to wake the dead as I slid it into the horizontal position.
I wasn’t naive enough to think that would protect me for long. Criminals picked locks, didn’t they? Hell, my mom used to have to unlock my sister’s bedroom door when she was little and throwing a fit.
If mymomcould unlock it with a screwdriver, whoever kidnapped me surely could too.
It was just a stall tactic.
While I got to the window.
Got it open.
Then got out.
Even as I started to move away again, though, I heard voices.
“The fuck do you think you’re doing, Gray?” a woman’s voice called, loud, unconcerned about being overheard.
Gray.
Gray?
As in Gav’s brother?
The guy who…
The guy who made the merch for the gym.
The same boxes of merch I handled daily.
“Cleaning up the mess,” Gray responded to the woman as I heard the hiss of a can opening.
“How is a woman in my son’s bedroom cleaning up the mess?” she shot back, and there was something… familiar about her voice. I couldn’t quite place it.
“Well, we can’t have her out there, talking to her fancy lawyer, putting shit together, can we? He’s already sniffing around too much. Saw his investigator taking a tour of the gym,” he added, piquing my interest. I didn’t know that. Was that even legal? But, I guess, no one would know what was or wasn’t legal more than a lawyer.
“But she’shere,” the woman hissed. “Leaving her DNA all over the place.”
“Well, I guess you’ll have to fuckingcleanfor once in your life,” Gray snapped.
I didn’t know who the woman was.
And I knew she was in on this.
