Hide & Seek by Scarlett Finn

Author:Scarlett Finn [Finn, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SFinn
Published: 2018-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

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The lodge wasn’t large, two floors with some additional space in the attic and basement. Rora imagined it would be a beautiful place to spend some time, if the company was better.

Before sneaking off the terrace, Benjamin told her how to get to the library, explaining that it was one of the few rooms he was allowed in. Working on the assumption that if he was allowed in there, she would be too, Rora used the space to regroup.

There were no phones lying around anywhere or computers outside the office he was required to work in. While telling her that, Benjamin didn’t reference Opal, but he probably assumed Exile was exempt from Bella’s rules, which may be why Benjamin assumed he couldn’t be trusted.

Lunch was brought to her in the library, but she ignored it and spent most of the day gazing out of the window at the falling snow, trying to come up with a strategy.

Plan B.

She understood Benjamin’s desire to protect the secret at any cost. It just wasn’t one she’d considered paying. Strike had told her that he took risks based on assumptions. Until now, she hadn’t realized that was what she’d done too. Rora had assumed that Benjamin would do nothing to hurt her and that Strike’s role in this was as facilitator to get her to where she needed to be. Turned out, neither of those things were true.

Benjamin hadn’t meant to hurt her by revealing the secret to her. She’d worked with him for a long time and knew a lot about his work. She didn’t understand much about it, and some of it was gobbledygook, but Strike would understand it. Except Benjamin was sure the hacker was untrustworthy, and Strike himself had told her not to trust him.

Bella loved games. Maybe that’s what this was, a game. Rora didn’t know what to believe of Strike or what was in his heart. If he cared for her, her perspective on trusting him would be clearer. But he could spin on a dime. One minute, she was sure he saw her, and the next, she felt like nothing more than a tool for him to wield.

Benjamin had been in such pain that he’d been willing to do anything to save himself. Some part of him believed she’d be his saving grace, even if it was just to offer him some comfort for a while, and she had. But now she was here, the timer was back on and the onus was on her to figure a way out.

Without any clear idea of what they could do to get out of here and protect the secret, she was still considering options when she went upstairs to the bedroom she’d shared with Bella and Strike the previous night.

Strike had always made it clear that survival was everyone’s primary mission and no one should focus on the past. Benjamin had told her that any sacrifice was worth it to protect the secret. Both men, in their own way, had told her what she needed to do.

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