Page 68 (1/2)

Mara rushed over to the playpen and leaned down to pick up Hope while Kay pulled open the closet doors

She caasp "Holy mother, are those what I think they are?"

"I’ll tell you later," Kay yelled over the sound of the siren as she hurriedly typed the code into the keypad next to the door A small section of the wall moved aside and she ducked inside Mara followed and Kay slapped the button next to the door and the panel slid closed Immediately, the sound of the siren was muffled

"Where are we?" Mara asked

Kay stood up and pressed her hands over her rapidly beating heart "Eli’s panic rooain, this is where I should go"

Mara looked around ide eyes "A panic room Really?"

"Yeah I just hope it was a false alarm"

Kay looked at the panel in the wall that concealed the hidden door She could only hope that if someone had broken in that they wouldn’t kno to break into the panic room as well

She turned around and surveyed the rooiven her the code and she hadn’t given it ht Now she was here and she had no idea what she was supposed to do now It was a small room, about the same size as a bedroom In the far corner there was a desk with two coht of the phone ht her cell

"Do you have your cell phone?" she asked Mara She thought of hers, sitting on the night table next to her bed If only she’d thought to grab it

"I do Should I call Matt? Or should ait until they contact me? I’d hate to break his concentration at a critical moment"

"Let’s wait and see what happens Maybe this is a false alarht to the panic rooain and to wait for hi was she supposed to wait? What if Eli was outside the door and needed help? Hoould she know?

"Wait, I just got a e from Matt" Mara peered at the screen of her phone and then started typing "I’ hiain "They’ve got help on the way He said for us to stay where we are until they coh Kay’s veins, so fast and potent it made her dizzy