He’s smart. Educated. Rich. Co
He didn’t need my help. In a couple of weeks, he’ll be starting college, and I’ll only be worth the money Hugo and Reeves can make off of me. I’ll be dead in five years, and he’ll be skiing.
A sound, like singing, breaks through my thoughts, and I look up, seeing movement on the monitors. Two bodies close in around the door on the roof, two more climbing up over the ledge from the fire escapes and coming this way. My heart rate speeds up.
They all stop, looking at something, and I take the mouse, zooming in on one of the faces.
“You know you can’t leave now, right, Rebel?” he says, and I notice it’s Kade Caruthers.
He smiles, and one by one they all disappear through the hole in the top of the roof, entering the hideout.
Can’t leave? What? The door in the roof closes, and I suck in a breath, realizing they’re inside, and then…