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“Carolyn!” she whispered.
No answer.
“Don’t obey him! Please, I need your help. You’ve been here longer. You must know a way out.”
Carolyn wasn’t talking. Miller’s threats had worked. Lucy pleaded, but Carolyn pretended not to hear her.
“His name is Peter Miller. He is on parole for statutory rape. He raped six high school students. His own students. Only two would testify, and I’m sure they were scared of him. But still they did it! They stood up to him! You have to do this. Please, Carolyn, I can’t do this by myself!”
Carolyn whimpered, then whispered so low that Lucy barely heard her. “I don’t want to die.”
Lucy sighed and swallowed back tears. “Neither do I. Does he have a gun?”
No answer.
“Okay, let’s do it this way. Move closer to the heater so I can see you better. Nod or shake your head. That way you’re not talking.”
It took Carolyn a minute to comply. “Now, does he have a gun?”
Carolyn nodded.
“Good. Where is it?” No answer. “Does he keep it on his person?”
She shook her head.
“Where…” This was a ridiculous game of Twenty Questions, but Lucy understood fear, and Carolyn couldn’t overcome Miller’s brainwashing overnight.
“In the kitchen?”
No.
“His bedroom?”
She shrugged.
“You saw a gun somewhere else?”
Yes.
She pictured the house she’d walked through earlier. It was immaculate. Clean and tidy. The kitchen, living room, stairwell…but there was a hall closet near the front door. Easy to access, right where someone might approach the house.
“The hall closet?”
Yes.
“Okay, I need that gun.”
Carolyn shook her head, then held up two fingers.
“There are two guns? Together?”
No. Then she whispered, “Den.”
Lucy smiled. “Good. Thank you. Two guns…that gives me another option.” If we get out of this damn cage. “You don’t have to do anything, except distract him. If he comes for us, both of us, and we’re walking out the door, you run.”
Carolyn shook her head rapidly.
“You have to. He’ll go after you and I can get the gun. I know how to use it. I won’t miss. It’s the only way I can think of to end this. Unless you want me to run and you get the gun.” Lucy didn’t like that idea at all. “Do you know how to use a gun?”
