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“Try harder!”
I see her tense expression as she steps harder on the gas pedal, sending us through the gates just before they snap shut behind us.
Chapter Thirty
Alyssa
I drive until we are twenty minutes away from the mansion and in the middle of nowhere, coming to a sudden stop at the panicked cries of Bunny asking me to stop the car.
“What’s wrong?” I ask as I park the car on the side of the empty road.
I see a terrified Bunny looking down at Antonio with tear-filled eyes.
“He stopped moving—he—”
I toss the seatbelt back and turn toward the back of the car, where Bunny is holding Antonio and looking at me.
Antonio’s eyes are glued shut, he is as white as a ghost, and his body is still. My hands shake as I reach out to his neck to feel his pulse.
His body is cold, but I can make out faint heartbeats. I exhale in relief as I look at Bunny.
“He’s alive.”
“He won’t be for long. We need to help him.”
“I’ll drive to a hospital,” I respond, making to return to the driver’s seat.
“Are you crazy—no!”
He is staring at me like I’m crazy.
“The hospital is going to have to make a police report for gunshot wounds.”
“So?”
He laughs bitterly. “You’re clueless, aren’t you?”
I turn to him in rage. “I know you dislike me, but we have to get your brother to safety. We do not have time for you to argue with me.”
His face softens as he looks down at his wounded brother.
“We’re criminals. The police will only take him in.”
I immediately recall the visit from the cops a week ago, and I sigh.
Suddenly, an idea hits me.
I return to the driver’s seat and pull on my seatbelt.
“Hang on, I know somewhere,” I say.
He looks like he wants to ask where, but he looks down at Antonio and seems to choose silence.
I step down on the pedal, and we zip back toward town.
We pull into the driveway of the home Laura and my mother live in.
“Wait here,” I call to Bunny, getting out of the car.
