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Laurent white-knuckled his knife.

Hopefully he wouldn’t kill me if he hangrily slaughtered everyone. I eyed the door, wondering if we could make it out without being ambushed, when my phone rang.

I was so excited for a distraction from my near starvation that I grabbed it without checking the screen. “Hello?”

“I have something that belongs to you, Ms. Feldman.” Zev’s smooth voice slid down the line.

I rolled my eyes. “Yeah. What’s that?”

There was a pause.

“Hi, Mom,” Sadie said in a small voice.

My phone clattered to the table.