Variance by Zoe Abrams

Author:Zoe Abrams [Abrams, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Cassie

Ro slid the van door open as they jumped in, peeling away from the burning embers surrounding the house. The man collapsed in the van as they hit the pavement, the woman fluttering a hand over him until she felt his pulse.

Cassie shuffled forward until she was behind Ro’s seat, leaning against the back of the seat.

“Holy shit, sweetness. We really pulled it off,” he exclaimed, tapping his fingers against the steering wheel as he leaned his head towards her and grinning.

″Yeah, holy shit.” Cassie heard a gasp behind them and turned to find the woman staring at Ro and Cassie.

Cassie turned towards her, reaching a hand out and waving it over the woman, looking for any reason she might be hurt from the blast.

″What the fuck?!” the woman rasped out. The inside of the van was silent, save for the sounds of the tires rushing over the road. The woman leaned back, her eyes searching out the back window where they could still see small fires covering the lawn of the property.

″Miss,” Cassie laid a hand on her arm, “you’re ok. We’re ok. Ro got us out of there.”

The woman whirled towards Cassie, her eyes wide and frantic.

″We just left him there…” she mumbled.

″No, no! You brought your friend with us, he’s right here. And Amelia.” Cassie glanced down at the still body of the man they’d taken, his chest slowly rising and falling, head lolling with the soft sway of the van. Amelia was opening her eyes, wide and searching.

″We left Seb…” the woman murmured, her eyes still on the smoldering home growing farther and farther away.

″Fuck Seb. He was gonna do much worse to that guy there once he found out you two were sleepin’ together.” Ro’s head nodded toward the man on the floor.

The woman whipped her head around, eyes narrowing on Ro’s profile. Cassie’s chest constricted at the sight of the woman rising to her haunches, prepping to lunge.

″No! No…please wait! I know you think he’s a bad guy—”

″I am a bad guy, sweetness.” Cassie’s eyes narrowed at the sly smirk on his face before she turned back to the woman. “But he got us out and gave the other girls a chance to run too. He saved me, and he could’ve left you there, but he saved you guys too. Give him a chance to explain, please.”

Cassie reached her hand out to the woman, who grasped tightly with her own hand, her eyes wide, her head nodding. “I don’t even know your name. You’ve done so much to get to me, to the other girls, and I don’t even know your name…”

″My name is Mariana…Mari. Just…Mari,” she whispered.

The van rocked in the silence.

Ro turned his head towards the girls, eyes locking on their intertwined hands.

″Well, like she said, I got us out. I’d had enough of Emanuel and Seb’s bullshit. I never signed up for the skin trade, and what they were doin’ to those girls made me sick. I’ll help you with

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