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I can feel his lips twist up into a smirk. “Right here. In this room.” He releases me suddenly, and I have to plant my feet before I fall over. The door clicks and locks shut behind him, and I’m left alone.
Locked up, just like he’d promised.
Chapter eighteen
Dane
I tap my footcontinuously on the hardwood floor while leaning back onto the couch. I shove my fingers through my hair for the umpteenth time to relieve the headache that’s slowly formed over the last thirty minutes of being awake while Aiden still sleeps. Kellan is punching a bag in the workout room while he waits, but it won’t be long before he breaks.
Raegan was going to leave last night.
We’d all been on alert after the way she’d been hiding from us the last couple of days. So, when she slipped out her window in the dead of night, none of us had been asleep.
And then Aiden came back hours later. Alone. Said something about giving her a night alone to cool down, and then she would come back in the morning. Hesworethat she wasn’t going to disappear.
But now it’s morning.
And she’s still not here.
It’s bothering me more than I’d like to admit, but there are thingsI need to say to her still. Questions I have to ask her.
The other night showed me another side to Vera. A side I never thought I would see.
Thelookshe gave me when I told her we could go home together. As if our family meant nothing to her anymore.
HowIfelt like nothing to her when she kicked my notebook aside.
What have they done to you, Vera?
We used to be so close that I could tell what she was thinking with only a look. We didn’t need words between us, because we always knew what the other was thinking or feeling.
The person who I saw on the rooftop was a stranger to me.
“Did you know that she and Gordon were fucking?”I didn’t believe Raegan when she said that. I’d assumed she was being petty and just trying to paint Vera in a negative light. She couldn’t have known that.My sisterwouldn’t have slept with the people holding us captive. She was too young and too smart for that.
“She was going to kill Dane.”
“You werefine, Dane. Worst case, the machines would have brought you back.”
I’ve made a horrible mistake.
Raegan saved me.
And I tried to kill her.
Fuck.
I have to see her. I need to talk to her and…I don’t even know what to say. Does sorry even cover how horrible I’ve been to her?
Will she even give me a chance to make it right, or have I fuckedeverything up too much? Is it too late?
Boots thunder across the floorboards, and I pull my hand from my hair to stuff in my pocket as Kellan stomps by. He doesn’t bother looking my way as he exits the training room and storms down the hallway to what I’m sure is Aiden’s door. He pounds on it repeatedly and then snarls, “Where is she?!”
Aiden must say something to him, because then his anger escalates. “Safe?! What does that mean?”
I’m tempted to get up and walk over there so I can hear what Aiden’s saying, but decide to make myself and Aiden a cup of coffee in the kitchen instead. It brings me close enough to hear them both without officially joining the conversation.
“It means she hasn’t gone anywhere. Calm down and let me put some goddamn clothes on. I’ll meet you in the dining room to tell you what happened.”
