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“What is wrong?” he demands.
I back up slightly, away from him, but my back hits the door. I swallow hard, holding up the piece of paper. He takes it from me, his face paling as he reads the words.
“Where was this?” he asks.
“My locker.” I lick my lips, which are suddenly dry. “It fell out when I opened my locker. I thought it was just garbage. I was going to throw it away when I noticed there was something written on it.”
Hunter takes a deep breath, looking toward the ceiling. After a few seconds, his eyes land back on me. “Okay, we have to leave the school.”
I nod. “Okay, let’s head back to the cabin. We can take the day off.”
“No. We need to leave campus,” he says.
But he doesn’t explain. He just grabs onto my wrist and pulls me down the hallway, toward the exit. I know better than to ask questions while we’re in the hallway, but there are so many things I’m going to ask him the second we get somewhere private.
Once we head out the door, Hunter is vigilant, looking around as we walk toward the car. He also keeps me pulled closely against him. I try to ignore the butterflies that appear because of his touch—right now isnotthe time to be controlled by my hormones. Somebody wants to kill me.
As we get to the parking lot, Hunter pulls me to a stop. My heart races, wondering if he’s seen something. Instead, he pulls out the keys to the car and pushes the remote start. I look over at him with a raised eyebrow, but he just leads me to the car. He opens the passenger side door for me, keeping his hand on the small of my back as I get in. As soon as he shuts my door, he races around the car and gets in his side. The second he’s inside, he puts the car in drive and races out of the parking lot.
Okay,nowI know why he always backs into the spot. I always thought it was a guy thing—Liam also likes to back his car in too. But Hunter does it in case we need to make a quick getaway.
I struggle to put on my seatbelt as he races toward the exit of the school. It’s only half a mile from the school to the gate, and my heart races as I realize he’s not slowing down for the gates.
At the last moment, the gate opens. We barely have enough room to make it through, but somehow we do.
“How?” I ask.
He holds up his phone. “My friend, Brett, made an app.”
Nice.
I need a friend like his.
“You know that’s insane, right?” I ask, shaking my head. “Your entire world is insane.”
He smirks. “Yeah, I guess itwouldseem that way to you.”
“To everybody,” I correct.
“I grew up in this world,” he says. “And everybody I know is in this world. So it’s not crazy to me. It’s just normal.”
I shake my head, not knowing what to say to that. I guess it would be normal if you’ve never known anything else. What is normal anyway? Normal definitely isn’t having a dad who is a rock star. Normal isn’t having a hit out on my life. But those things aremynormal right now.
“Why did we leave campus?” I ask.
West Raven Academy is long gone in the rearview mirror and Hunter is headed the opposite way of the city.
Hunter’s knuckles turn white from gripping the steering wheel so tight. “Because somebody threatened you.”
I swallow hard. “Yeah, but couldn’t we have stayed in the cabin?”
“And risk them following us there? No.” He lets out a long breath. “I need to make sure that nobody knows where the cabin is. The best thing I can do is take us away from school for a little while.”
I frown. “How long is a little while?”
“Just for the night. We’ll go back in the morning, as long as it’s safe,” he reassures me.
I let out a sigh of relief. I don’t want to miss school any more than I have to. I don’twantthis to control my life. Plus, I’m kind of liking Spirit Week.
