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“You mean you haven’t found the courage.”
My face turns grim, not liking her calling me out on my excuses. She rebuttals by shooting me a scathing look, not impressed either.
“I know I need to but—”
“No buts. You need to have that conversation. Sooner”—her finger jabs into the comforter—“than later. Got it?” she says sternly.
I narrow my eyes, but she only keeps her no-nonsense attitude and I flop over, looking up at the ceiling annoyed.
A chill forces its way down my spine as I bite back my sneer.
She’s right, and I know she is, but does she have to be so brash about it too?
“I’ll do it,” I promise.
“Soon.”
three
Cole
Havingspentthelastseventy-two hours confined this closely with my father has been my own personal definition of torture.
Cutting each of my toes off with a butter knife would be more appealing.
This trip was a mission of self-sabotage. I volunteered to go to try and get some answers. So far on this stupid trip, I have come up with nothing but a migraine and a better understanding of what my future will look like.
Hollowanddull.
Or at least it would have had Rory not ever come back into my life.
She brought a light I hadn’t known I needed until I almost lost her for a second time. Now I can’t imagine not having her here.
Looking over at Silas, I almost pity him because I know that would have been me. I would have been miserable; Ihadbeen miserable but all that’s changed now.
All because of Rory.
I watch him out of my own boredom. His lip has stayed in that thinned-out line since we boarded the plane days earlier. It doesn’t leave now on our way back.
I seemed to be the only one okay with going back. A few days like an eternity when the girl you loved was hundreds of miles away and you couldn’t do anything about it.
He sits next to Eli’s dad, Sgt. Daniels. Head down as he listens to whatever Daniels is saying.
My father is doing his best to conceal his panic but each day the uneasiness unearths itself more and more. The hysteria building in his eyes the longer we go without a solution.
Eli’s father doesn’t look much better. Seeing as it looks like he hasn’t slept in days. A shadowed tint settling underneath his sockets.
I’m sure he’s much worse than he’s letting on. Positive that the only thing keeping him calm right now is his trained military background.
Probably a good thing. If Silas didn’t need his help to solve all this mess, the words fired would have flown from his mouth so fast Abram wouldn’t have had a chance to rebuttal.
We did figure out something. Not much but I guess anything little is better than nothing at all. We know it had to of been some sort of inside job. Impossible because the only one with access to everything is our families and Daniels.
He custom designed the new system once he’d taken over and has been overlooking it since.
Whoever it was, had managed to get past all the top-rated security systems. They are either genius or some sort of robot.
They want to know how. I want to know why.
