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Hadn’t they given up on finding me? What the hell made me so special that they’d kept looking for me until they found me again?
How had they found me at all?
Someone had told them where I was. It was the only thing that made sense.
Who could have ratted me out? Ash?
No way. Ash had gone out of his way to protect me. If he’d wanted to hand me over to these guys, he would have done it that first night. No, it had to have been someone else.
The only other male I knew was Rowan, Ash’s friend. He wouldn’t have done something like this, would he? I didn’t know him well enough to answer that, and I didn’t know what kind of friendship he and Ash had either.
Thinking so hard made my head hurt, and I gave up. Someone out there wanted me gone, and now I was captive again in a car.
Where were they taking me?
“Oscar will lose his shit if he finds out we found her and didn’t tell him,” Thing Two said.
“Oscar won’t find out if you don’t tell him,” Thing One grumbled.
“Why the fuck would I tell him?”
They stared at each other, and a moment of tension grew in the car.
“You know you can trust me,” Thing Two added, and the tension died down again.
Oscar didn’t know I was here. He didn’t know these guys were acting without him. What was Oscar’s arrangement with them? Had his debts been paid? He hadn’t done anything to Cat—a trip back to my old life had shown me she was still alive, and that meant everything to me.
Where the hell was Oscar now? Wherever it was, it wasn’t around Cat, and that was all that mattered.
Thing Two looked over his shoulder at me, and I closed my eyes quickly. Had he seen I was awake?
He didn’t say anything, and a moment later, the conversation resumed between them.
“So, what are we supposed to do now?”
“We’re going to the pickup point, and then we’ll know what’s next,” Thing One said. “I don’t give a shit which way this goes as long as I get my money.”
Where was the pickup point? Where would that take me? Who was involved… and why?
The questions made my head spin. I knew why I’d been taken—it had been to pay off Oscar’s debts. But that had been a long time ago. I had no idea what this was about now.
I must have fallen asleep again. When the back door was yanked open, I jerked awake. I didn’t have time to look around and figure out what was going on. Thing Two grabbed me and roughly yanked me out of the car.
“Get up, Sleeping Beauty,” he grumbled. “It’s time for a pee break.”
I blinked in the bright light and looked around. When Thing Two planted me on my legs, I wobbled, catching myself on the car. I was weak, barely able to keep myself up on my own two legs. My head felt light and airy, and the bright light hurt my eyes.
We were at a gas station with two pumps, one of which was out of order. Where were we? Was this still in the realm where Ash lived? Something told me it wasn’t.
“If you don’t go to the bathroom now, you can piss yourself,” Thing One said gruffly.
He put a hand on my back and shoved me toward the restroom. It took everything I had not to fall to the ground. What was going on? Why was I so weak? I felt like I hadn’t eaten in days.
“You don’t think she’ll make a break for it?” Thing Two asked.
“Too weak,” Thing One answered.
They knew I was weak. What had they done to me?
