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I wasn’t worried about taking care of Greg and his friends Even with their guns, we still had a chance But if they tried to pull so while ere asleep, or if they called in reinforcements--

My feet stopped uard duty

He sat facing the tents, his long, spidery legs crossed in front of hi toward the others’ tents, concentrating so hard on picking up their conversation that he missed my approach and nearly jumped out of his skin when I appeared

"Zu?" He squinted in my direction

"Zu?" I whispered back "Really?" I mean, really?

I took Zu’s workbook and pencil out of his hands and flipped the page without looking at whatever he had been writing

WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I wrote, showing it to him He rolled his eyes and refused to respond when I tried to put the pencil back in his hand

DO YOU THINK THEY’RE GOING TO TRY SOMETHING?

After a hed and finally nodded

ME TOO, I scribbled COME WITH ME?

By the way his shoulders slumped, Chubs seemed to think he didn’t havehis palainst the front of his khaki pants

"I have a bad feeling about this," Chubs said ere out of earshot The tents were in our line of sight, but eren’t in theirs "About the to try to rob us?"

"I think they’re going to try to take Betty, actually"

There was a long pause; I felt Chubs’s eyes slide over tofor trouble

"You should go back to sleep" There was a gruff edge to his voice as he crossed his ar about the way he said it thatto see what I would reply "What are you even doing up?"

"Saets brutallyto see if those kids are the assles I think they are"

Chubs snorted at that, rubbing his hand over his forehead It took some tiuarded hostility to so that felt to er bunched up with tension, and when he tilted his head toward me, I saw it for the subtle invitation it was I took a step closer

"It was bad enough he had to come back here," Chubs mumbled, more to himself than to me "God…"

"Liam?" I asked "This is where he and his friend were captured, right?"