Unbreakable_A Section 8 Novel by Stephanie Tyler

Author:Stephanie Tyler [Tyler, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-11-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Jem pulled into the driveway twenty minutes after he’d hung up. Gunner met him on the porch as Jem demanded, “What the fuck’s happening here?”

Jem was covered in dirt, and there were concrete pieces in his hair.

“Someone tried to kill you?”

“Suicide bomber,” Jem said grimly as he followed Gunner inside. “What do we know?”

“There’s a syringe on the back deck. Whoever took her left these two earpieces on the kitchen counter. They’re not turned on yet.”

“Fuck.”

“I shouldn’t have left her.”

“Come on, Gunner—get real. And whoever took her couldn’t have gotten far.”

“I was gone an hour. An hour could get her far. On a plane, out of the country.” Gunner swallowed his panic. “They left no tracks.”

“Listen, they want to be in contact with us,” Jem turned over the earpieces in his fingers, then popped one into his ear. “I’ll get in touch with Mike and Andy. And is there any doubt who took her?”

“None,” Gunner said grimly. “I can call him.”

“That might piss him off more. For Avery’s sake . . .”

That was the only reason he hadn’t called yet. He paced as Jem talked with Mike and Andy, forced himself to keep his phone in his goddamned pocket. Landon could be anywhere with her and his best course of action was to wait.

“What’s he doing to her, Jem?” he asked at one point.

“He’d better not do shit to her,” Jem muttered, and then he pointed to his earpiece. He turned on the tracking software and mouthed, They’re bouncing the signal. It’s going to take a little time.

Time Avery might not have. He held out his hand for the second earpiece and Jem shook his head. Paled.

“Gunner, we’ll get her back,” Jem was mouthing, pointing at the tracking software that was working furiously to pick up the location.

“Let me hear.”

“No.” Jem’s voice was hoarse. He looked like he was about to be sick.

“You have to let me be with her. Now, of all times.”

Jem cursed and handed him an earpiece. Gunner hesitated briefly, then slipped it on.

His ears flooded with Avery’s whimpers of pain.

“No,” he whispered, as if that could stop anything.

He heard sounds of grunting. Handcuffs. He tried to listen past it, to get any clues about where she’d been taken, but he couldn’t get past hearing Avery cry.

He heard, “Bitch,” muttered too low for him to tell if it was actually Landon or not.

“Fight, Avery,” he muttered. The fact that she wasn’t doing so could only mean one thing—she was drugged. Even tied, Avery would find a way to fight, scream, claw. Something.

Landon was determined to take everything away from him, to strip him down to nothing. To force him to be a machine.

He could never do that. Not after tonight.

He’d never forgive himself. Couldn’t see how she ever would either.

• • •

Avery needed him to stop cutting her. The fact that she couldn’t feel, couldn’t know if she was dying or not was freaking her out more than anything.

“He talks about you, Drew. He understands you,”

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