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"Fuck" was all he said as I ran forward

We er door, dropped his inside then shut the door and ran around to the driver’s side

Denny and his rabbed the keys out of my pocket, slammed the door closed, hit the lock button with my elbow, then leaned across and locked Evin’s door

And julass became a spidery network of cracks

But I could see the h theot their hands on us now, it wasn’t going to be pleasant

Not that it was actually going to be pleasant before

"Fucking hell," Evin said "Get us out of here!"

"I’ engine up, then released the hand brake and threw the truck into reverse

It rocketed backward Another rock hit the windshield, this ti with a thump on the seat between Evin andthe truck’s nose in the general direction of the road, then changed gears and hit the gas pedal

As the truck surged forward, soaze flicked to the rearviewinto the back I hauled on the wheel and the big truck turned sharply to the left Theinto the side of the truck and his body half flying out

Yet sorip and didn’t fall all the way out

Evin twisted around "Turn the other way"

I kept my foot planted and twisted the wheel in the opposite direction Our passenger flew across the truck and tulanced at the side mirror, saw him bounce several tiet up

I kept accelerating I couldn’t see Denny and his other friend, but I wasn’t about to risk slowing down until ell out of the area

For a long tiine as we arrowed through the night I handed Evin the knife and he hacked away the rope binding his legs He tried undoing the silver wound around his neck, but it isted on tight

I didn’t say anything and, eventually, he cleared his throat and said, "I don’t suppose you could stop and take the silver away? My skin feels like it’s blistering"

I didn’t look at him Didn’t slon

"That depends"

I could feel his gaze on er, only the hint of confusion Whatever else Evin ht be, I didn’t think he was a particularly devious aze widen, so heaven only knohat he actually saw in my eyes

"It depends," I said softly, "on whether you tellon"

Chapter 12

His expression didn’t alter, but his fear leapt between us, thick and strong "I have no idea what you mean"

"I mean," I said harshly, "that I am not Hanna London Someone has erased my memory and abandoned me here, and I want to knohy"

"I don’t knohat you’re - "

"You do," I interrupted harshly "And if you don’t answer my questions, I promise you, whatever those men intended to do to you will pale in comparison to what I’ll do!"

He stared at me, his expression fierce and yet scared "Hanna, I’ your soul e, Evin? Who are you really?"

He didn’t say anything for several seconds, then he sighed It was a defeated, desperate sound "How long have you known?"

"That you aren’tInitially, I couldn’t have told you his name or what he looks like - "

He looked so shocked that I stopped and stared at him "What?"

"But I am your brother"

And he said it so adamantly that I half believed him But it wasn’t true I knew my brother Evin wasn’t hi that word roll around ain My brother, my twin, my life God, I missed hiht now " - and that’s a connection that goes beyond the physical"

"Connection or not, it doesn’t alter fact" He said it with such unwavering certainty that again I foundmy memories

But they weren’t off His belief was

Whichon It would certainly explain his unshakable belief that I was his sister

"This is all going horribly wrong" He rubbed a hand across his eyes, then added softly, "You haven’t been taking your tablets, have you? They said it would be a problem if you didn’t"

"Who said?" I deed "I don’t knoas told to use it and I did I figured you suspected soht your own, so I stopped"

That explained why the coffee had started tasting slightly better recently - but it still wasn’t hazelnut I hungered for that alered to see Rhoan andsomeone else Soht well be dead My throat closed over at the thoughts, and I had to force my question out "And you report to the people behind this every night?"

"Yes" He slumped down in the car seat a little "Look, in all honesty, I can’t really tell you ain, staring out the , his expression miserable I almost felt sorry for him

Almost

"My real nauard for the Glen Helen Jenson pack"

A chill ran through rown up there, learned to fight and hate and fear there The home of your birth, that internal voice said But not the home of your heart "That’s in the Northern Territory, isn’t it?"

His brow furrowed "Yeah, but not many people would know that"

"Unless that’s where you were born"

He blinked "You can’t be fronized you"