A Girl Scorned by Rachel Rust

Author:Rachel Rust
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense, young adult, contemporary, teen, new adult
Publisher: Evernight Teen

Chapter Sixteen

The brown car Luke had arranged for us to use was older than me. Older than all of us. Its boxy frame clunked and creaked with every small bump in the road, and smelled like an ashtray. It wasn’t an FBI vehicle, and when asked where he got it, he said he was “borrowing it.” I wasn’t sure where the line was between officially commandeering a vehicle and stealing one, but he had probably crossed it.

We headed east, crossing a bridge at some point, through crowded shopping blocks, then through quiet, dark residential blocks, until things grew bleaker. More bars on windows, more trash on the streets. I don’t think my dad had told me any stories of this part of New York.

Luke steered the car into a narrow alley. “Four doors down on the left. Brown door, one guard. He has a sidearm but that’s it.”

“Got it,” Eddie said, hooking a finger into the door handle.

“Wait.” I grabbed his arm to stop him. He turned to look at me and I could just make out his eyes in the darkness. “Please be careful, and if you can’t do it, just back off. Don’t risk it if things don’t work out right.”

“Stick with Luke,” Eddie said. “Once you pass the message onto Gunnar that you’re there, you leave and Luke will take you to the Hyatt. Promise me you’ll stay there until I come for you or until they give you the all-clear.”

“Promise,” I said with a twinge of guilt, having no intention of being left behind.

Eddie and Luke exchanged a long glance.

“You got this,” Luke said. “We’ll meet at the Hatter Street Garage by midnight.”

Eddie nodded. “Take off if I’m not back by then. Get her to the hotel.”

Luke replied in the affirmative. Eddie then slipped out of the car before I even had a chance to say goodbye. The alley shadows enveloped him in a matter of seconds.

He was gone. Again.

Luke backed out of the alley and parked a couple of blocks away. Although my heart ached at being separated from Eddie, the walk to the club felt good. It was the first time I had been able to stretch my legs all week.

The neighborhood was dim, with sparse streetlamps. The storefronts were dark and most did not have signs over the doors. Commerce was not alive and well in this area. Perhaps it was more residential. But the windows overhead weren’t lit up either, as if entirely empty. I shuddered and quickened my steps to keep up with Luke. No way did I want to fall behind and get lost in the darkness of an unknown New York neighborhood.

I heard the club before I saw it. Shitty techno music thumped through the air with a nonstop rhythm. What was I walking into? A skanky club, at best. My own death, at worst.

I latched onto Luke’s arm. We turned the next corner and found ourselves at the back of a line that was spilling out of the club’s doorway under a tattered red awning.

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