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It was his wallet

“There’s fast food next door Grab as much as you can carry”

He dipped his head “Got it,” and was gone

Raize spoke, “You guys should both try to sleep As soon as they’re back, we’ll be taking off again”

V congregated to the other bed, resu Raize, myself, and Abram, but she didn’t respond

Abraain?”

Raize didn’t coht away, but I felt how tense he was After he finished repacking his bag, he zipped it up and tossed it to the floor by the door and then regarded Abram “When I feel like I can breathe a little easier That’s e’ll stop”

Abra while

I noticed that V had stopped drying her hair She was now just holding the towel, but Raize was on the ain

He went to the chair, tipped it back so he could see outside, and he tugged un on the table, and he , his hand settling on edhe meant me as well

I wasn’t going to argue

I broughtinto Raize’s lapme securely to him

It wasn’t long before I was sleeping

The srowl

I was being carried and then lifted into the back of another vehicle Blinking, pushing past drowsiness, I saw that ere in a Suburban With seats And no one was on the outside

Praise to the Gus

And speaking of, his wet nose pushed into iven a Gus bath

I took stock

Cavers was driving

Raize was next to hi in his seat

I was in the next seat Gus ith

I looked back and Raize’s sister and Abram were in the seat behind , I was betting the other guy was back there, too

I went back to sleep

We drove through the rest of the day and night

At one point, V, who I overheard was actually Verónica, but she told me to call her V, and I were stretched out in the second seat Her head was at one side, her feet toward me, and I was the opposite Our feet intertwined, but after a few hours, it didn’t matter

The ‘guy’ woke up a couple tiht away