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“I’m really sorry,” she said as we got out of the car.
I laughed. “Not your fault. Though I think it might be time to give up on the car.”
“Never,” Lena said with a grin. “I love this car. Bessie is a good girl. I just need to pour a little more money into it to make sure she doesn’t pull this shit on me.”
“And go home and get to sleep at a decent time so that she can pull this shit during daylight hours,” I said with a smirk.
Liam already had the cables hooked between the cars, and Noah was standing by the driver’s side door, looking around in slow circles. There was nothing to see. Just a wooden fence and open fields next to the road. Ranchland, like so much out here. There weren’t any lights in sight.
“Okay,” Liam said to Noah. “Start it.”
They swapped roles. Now Liam was the one on the lookout while Noah started the car to charge Lena’s battery. She pulled me a few steps to the side. “What the hell is going on, and where is Lucas?”
I pressed my lips together, toes flexing in my shoes. “They think they found Nathan. They’re all out there right now trying to catch him.”
Her eyes went wide. “Holy shit.”
“Yeah.”
“Okay, Lena,” Noah called. “Go ahead and give it a go.”
She sat in her car and turned over the engine. It made a whining sound, but it didn’t start. We waited a couple more minutes, and there still weren’t any better sounds from the engine. Liam frowned at it and ducked his head under her hood. The car idled as Noah stepped out to keep watch.
“Nothing looks wrong,” he said. “Give it one more try.”
Lena did, and the same pitiful whine came from the engine. And then the engine stopped making any sounds at all. “Damn it.” She sighed and leaned back against the seat before she pulled out the keys and locked it behind her. “I guess I’ll have to call a mechanic in the morning.”
“I’m sorry.”
She sighed. “It’s not your fault. My love for this car may not be enough to keep her alive, no matter how much I want it to.”
I slipped my arm around her shoulder. “It had a good life.”
“We’ll see what the mechanic says. Anyway, can I get a ride home?”
“Of course,” I said. “Like we would leave you out here in the middle of the night.”
There was a measure of relief that we were leaving and going back to a place with walls. We were fine, everything was fine. But being out here like this was unnerving.
Liam unhooked the cables from Lena’s engine and dropped the hood. It sounded with a clang. At the same time there was an electric sound. Like her car suddenly let out a zap of whatever energy had been put into it.
“What the hell was that?”
The words were barely out of my mouth before Liam was crumpling to the ground with that same sound in the air, twitching as he dropped in front of the headlights.
My stomach plummeted, and I couldn’t hear anything. The world was roaring in my ears as a dark figure bent to meet Liam’s fall with a needle to his neck.
It was already too late to run. Maybe it had always been too late to run. This hadn’t been a coincidence.
Nathan stood and smiled at me—the smile that haunted my dreams. “Hello, Evelyn.”
Then he raised his hand and pointed a gun straight at me.
Chapter 26
Lucas
I was crouched in a bush, observing the cabin from as close as I dared. Lights blazed from all the windows, and music poured out of the house. The bastard. He was here enjoying himself while he terrorized Evelyn. Probably getting off on the fact that she was afraid.
