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When he left, Lilac slumped down onto the ground, unable to keep herself up.
Ouch.
“Lilac? Fuck, Lilac! Ryleigh,” Opal yelled.
“What is it? Oh God, Lilac! What happened?” Ryleigh asked frantically.
Then Kye started crying.
Shit. She had to get herself together before they all lost it.
“I’m okay. I’m fine.” Close to passing out . . . burned out, exhausted and thirsty.
But. Yeah. Fine.
“Water,” Opal said. “She needs some water.”
Someone pressed a bottle of water into her hand and guided it to her mouth. She sucked it down. God, she’d been so thirsty.
Idiot.
“Lilac, are you sure you’re all right? Do we need to call an ambulance?” Ryleigh asked.
“No! No ambulance.” She managed to stand with Opal’s help. They couldn’t afford an ambulance. She had to get herself together. “I just got a bit dehydrated, is all.”
“Not to mention you haven’t fucking eaten in six months,” Opal said. “Surprised you haven’t fainted before now.”
“Opal,” Ryleigh said softly as she swayed back and forth with Kye pressed to her chest.
“Got to be said, you don’t fucking eat soon, and we will be calling an ambulance for you.”
“Yeah, well, I think we have more important things to worry about right now,” Lilac replied. “Like getting Sugar up and running before he comes back.”
“Where are we gonna fucking go?” Opal asked, pacing back and forth. “We can’t stay here, not if we have to meet with the fucking sheriff.”
“What?” Ryleigh asked.
Lilac filled her in on her conversation.
“So that’s it? We have to leave?” Fear and sadness filled Ryleigh’s face.
Opal and Lilac shared a look.
“No, we don’t have to leave. But we also can’t have the sheriff looking into us,” Lilac said. “I told Devon, the guy that owns Dirty Delights, that my brother was trying to force me to do something I didn’t want to, but that I wasn’t in immediate danger.”
Opal snorted. “Sort of true.”
“I’ll just convince the sheriff not to look into us.” Somehow. Fuck.
“But where will we stay if there’s no camp ground?” Ryleigh asked.
That part was more complicated. “We’ll move around. You guys can drop me off close to town when I have to work, and I’ll walk the rest of the way. Then you can go further out to park.”
“Or . . .” Ryleigh let her voice drop off as she chewed at her lower lip.
“Or what?” Opal asked.
“We go straight to the Malones. Ask for their help,” Ryleigh said.
