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Without looking at me, she grabs the firefighter’s outstretched hand and uses it to propel herself up the ladder and out of the elevator.
When I clear the door and stand up straight, brushing dust from my pants, I look around for her.
She’s gone.
???
I sprawl across the backseat of the limo, exhausted.
All the training plus the stress of being trapped in that elevator have taken it out of me.
Instead of spending an evening at home like I was hoping, I now have to meet Rogue in Geneva.
He’s wooing his key shareholders, trying to assure a smooth succession between his father and him when it eventually happens, and he needs us there for some board cocktail hour bullshit.
That’s about the last thing I want to be doing right now.
Preferably, I’d be spending the evening drinking beer and replaying the entire elevator exchange with Thayer.
It’s hard to describe the feeling that’d punched me in the gut when I’d turned around expecting to find her standing and fine, and instead found her trembling on the floor.
Her face had been so white, I thought she was about to pass out. My heart had dropped into my ass and my hands had shaken as they’d grabbed her face.
I rub my eyes wearily before looking out the window as we leave Aubonne. I don’t think I took a breath for those ten seconds that stretched to minutes in my chest.
I’m going to take that entire elevator apart – piece by fucking piece – for putting her through that.
Pulling my phone out of my pocket, I unlock it and open a text to Phil Thornton, RCA’s headmaster.
Rhys:The south elevator in the athletic building. I want it decommissioned.
Thornton:You can’t just text this number.
Thornton:And what are you talking about?
Rhys:It’s faulty. I want it decommissioned today. I’ll donate however much is needed to get it replaced with something state of the art.
Thornton:Because that’s what we need, state of the art elevators.
Thornton:I can’t just decommission an elevator because you have a problem with it.
Rhys:I’ll throw in a new swimming pool.
Thornton:Go on…
Rhys:Funding for a new Olympic-sized pool and the new elevator. But I want it blocked off immediately.
Thornton:Alright.
Thornton:Quite a price to pay for one elevator.
I lock my screen and put my phone away.
I’d have paid a lot more money to get that elevator destroyed.
We pull into the hotel Rogue’s staying at and my driver, Jake, opens my door.
“Thank you.”
