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I wanted to laugh at the sense of betrayal I couldn’t shake as I tried to accept the fact that my father had hired people to kill me After all he’d done to me, not to mention that I’d fully accepted that he would kill ot out of jail, here I was, hurt that he’d decided to not even waste his ti me himself

God, I really was a fucked-up mess

Jace drove the car around the back of the property and pulled it into an old barn “You can get out,” he said to me as he climbed out of the car I did as he said and then watched as he worked to disassemble the rifle he’d used earlier after we’d driven away frorabbed it and a s from the trunk

“Can you help round and then reached for a tarp I helped him spread it over the car Just before he covered it completely, he removed the license plates fro

I followed him froht ere just switching cars, but realized I rong e began heading toward the large dock

“Where are we?” I finally asked

“Elkton, Maryland”

It was an answer, but not really the one I wanted “I thought ere headed west,” I said

“We need to get inally planned,” Jace responded “Water’s as good a place as any” He pointed at a large boat bobbing gently on the water at the end of the dock

“Is that your boat?”

Jace shook his head “My friend’s,” he said as heus from the front of the house

“How do you know him?”

“He was my spotter”