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He tilts his head atout of the booth and then stepping aside

I hardly knohat I’ the corner to the bathrooms and then – on a cowardly whim – head for the exit instead

I burst out into the cold and placein the icy winter air I walk away fro lot

I try to getunder control

This is it Oh, God, this is where it could all go wrong

I promised Saul I’d be brave, but it turns out it’s easier to be brave in the bedroo down your best friend

Facing her doith news that could emotionally scar her for life

What have we done?

But I wouldn’t take it back

I know that with an iron certainty

So what the heck am I supposed to do?

“Look here, fellas,” a voice says from behind me

I flinch and turn, realizing that in e of the lot, near where it runs down into a ditch and then across soiving the world an eerie quality

My eyeson the hood of a car parked down in the ditch, a big off-roader with the lights turned off I feel in to freeze as their eyes turn onburly men with heavy jackets and boots and jeans They wear leather jackets, I see as they get closer – like a anism – a skull and bones emblem on the breast

A biker gang

The roup is at least as tall as Saul and just as wide, a big bull of a s than I can count His bald head is exposed to the swirling snowfall, but he doesn’t take any notice

“Didn’t expect you to just co,” he drawls

“I don’t want any trouble,” I say, spine-tingling as the in to spread out

“Nah, neither did we,” the bald ies and ot it into his head to be a hero”

I gasp, reot Jasper

He freed hie owned by criminals … are these the men?