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“Have you been in contact with your father since he was arrested?” I asked

When Caleb didn’t answer right away, it was answer enough

“When?” I asked

But Caleb just shook his head As much as I wanted to press him, I knew I needed to stick to my plan and take care of step one

Getting us good and lost

Chapter 4

Caleb

I was happy to stay in the car as ordered because h the windshield as he talked to the man in front of a se As I watched hiht back the e to bubble to the surface The ti in the hopes that would calm me down, but I kneouldn’t

There was only one thing that would take away the burning need to get out of the car and walk straight into Jace’s arms

I kept my eyes on Jace as best I could as I droppedout what I wanted A ers around one of the larger pieces of glass from the shatteredI didn’t even stop to think about what I was doing as I slipped the sleeve oflass over

The fear

The anger

The hope

I couldn’t enjoy the e that he and the lass between my seat and the console of the car, then reached into my pocket for the small scrap of fabric I kept there specifically for moments like these I applied pressure to the cuts and was relieved when blood didn’t instantly seep through the cloth – it h that I couldn’t easily control the bleeding I spied the hair tie Jace had rerabbed it and looped it around my arht, but that was a good thing I quickly dropped s

I had no clue where ere because I’d fallen asleep after Jace had pulled over long enough to look at my head and to make a phone call from a payphone at a convenience store at the base of the ht that the ringing in my ears had stopped shortly after we’d left the cabin

It was late afternoon by the time we’d reached our destination, but now that the anxiety was gone, I was so tired it felt like we’d been driving for days I couldn’t make sense of the fact that despite all the terror I’d lived through in the last thirty-six hours, I could barely keepto catch up on sleep now, after nearly two years of not being able to sleep for ht?

I was still struggling to process the events of the ure out how tothey could say wouldbody had slaen had been sucked out of s I was terrified for Mav and Memphis, but I had to believe what Jace had said – that they were okay

I watched as Jace shook the ht of the slass had left several sh so I could lass in any of them, but he’d said there wasn’t time and had merely wiped at the blood with the sleeve of his shirt The idea that he’d been hurt protecting otten rid of start to roll around in ain

Jace didn’t say anything as he started the car up It wasn’t lost on me that I was completely reliant on hi when I’d woken up that I wouldn’t lean on hi Of course, it wasn’t like I had a lot of choices It was one thing to try and just disappear… to start over But to do it with killers on your trail? Nope, I wasn’t down for that That pesky will to survive was still kicking in