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Was that Hale?
I turned to Riven, who stared as Bremmer mumbled into his phone and turned away, striding for a sedan.
“Did you…” I whispered.
“What?” Riven scowled.
“The ID on that call. It had H. As in…”
“Hale.”
I lunged, racing after them as they pushed Thomas in the back seat of the sedan. “Don’t say a word!” I yelled, pressing my hands against the window. “Do you hear me? Don’t say a word. We’ll get you out of this.”
Car doors opened and closed.
The engine started.
Thomas turned to stare at me, his hands secured behind his back. But it wasn’t fear I saw in his eyes. It was resignation.
“We’ll get you out,” I promised. “We’ll get you out.”
The sedan pulled away, slipping from my touch. I stared at the rear window as he left, knowing in my gut what I’d seen. It was Hale that had called Bremmer. I knew it.
It was Hale.
TWENTY
Thomas
“Get in.” Bremmer shoved my shoulder down until my knees buckled.
“NO!” Helene roared and lunged forward as I hit the back seat. “NOO!”
Thud.
The car door closed beside me, leaving my mind to freeze. This was bad…this was bad.
Bang!
Helene slammed her hand against the window, making me flinch and jerk my stare to her. There was panic in her eyes, desperate, bared-teeth panic. It pulled me away from the disconnect my mind desperately wanted. Stay here…just stay here. We’re in trouble, don’t you get that? We’re in serious fucking trouble.
“Don’t say a word!” she yelled. “Do you hear me? Don’t say a word. We’ll get you out of this!”
The driver’s door closed as I gave a small nod. I tried to hold on to her, focusing on her wide eyes and her wind-scattered hair as the sedan pulled away.
I shifted, looking back through the rear window at my brothers. Riven yelled at someone on his cell, his fist clenched around it as he raged. Hunter stood beside his second, staring at me. But it was Helene who drew my focus back as she ran forward, chasing the car as we left.
The car bounced, jarring me. I tensed my thighs as we turned hard and I flew sideways, slamming my shoulder into the door. Agony followed, plunging all the way up into my neck. But I didn’t have time to cope before I was thrown backwards into the seat.
Bremmer said nothing as he drove. Just met my gaze in the rearview mirror. I pressed myself against the seat and glanced at the seatbelt hanging down beside me.
“I don’t have my seatbelt on.” I turned to the rear-view mirror as he looked away. “You didn’t put my seatbelt on.”
An icy sensation rippled deep in the pit of my stomach. There was something very wrong here and it was more than the steel wrapped around my wrists and the law. I shifted, glancing back at the dark blue fed sedan behind me, then the two in front as the faint tick, tick, tick of the turn signal filled the space.
We turned right, spearing off from the others. The car bounced hard against the rocks, kicking up dust as we headed down some road I’d never seen before, one that took me away from the city.
That sickening wave of nausea grew more intense as I stared at the long, empty stretch of road lined with towering pines.
