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“Of course” She gathered the blankets as he dragged the mattress over to the area under the , beside the sink Taking a blanket, he tied one corner to a bar on thefarthest away from the sink He then secured the opposite corner to the sink He stood the ainst the sink so that it stood out at an angle from the wall He then draped the ree of the mattress and stepped back to consider his work
With thea lopsided roof, they had a space where they could sit out of sight of the cameras More importantly, he had a section ofthat was hidden by the blanket—a secure escape route for his rattler Taking the last two blankets and the pillow, he made a pallet on the floor inside the little hut
“Come on” He held out a hand “We can have some privacy in here”
Her fingers were sile in his “Kane will probably knock it down”
Since there was no lock or handle on the door that could be ja in the room to use as a barricade, there wasn’t much he could do to stop Kane But at least their privacy would give them the time needed to set the diamondback free
“We’ll worry about that later” He helped her into the shelter
Once he’d settled her on the pilloith her back to the wall, he pulled down the rest of the blanket Now they were completely hidden from the cameras
“They can’t see us right now, but they can still record sound Don’t say anything important”
She nodded Without hesitating, he sat back on his heels, widened his ar sensation inside his body before there was a burst of pain and the snake eed
Get going, he ordered
Although the daent, he still took tiainst Friday before he headed up to theThey watched it disappear, a silent and deadly phantom, completely hidden by his makeshift tent
Friday reached out and lifted his hand, exa his torn and bruised knuckles “We need to see to these At the very least, we should wash the scrapes”
He studied his beaten hands “They don’t hurt”
She gave him a cute little frown “I’ll dampen a tissue and wipe them for you”
“No, I’ll wash the around, not when she looked this close to exhaustion