You Will Pay by Lisa Jackson

Author:Lisa Jackson
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-05-29T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

Camp Horseshoe

Annette

Then

This was crazy, Annette thought as she snuck into her cabin. She hadn’t seen a ghost. Had not viewed any kind of apparition. Nor had she caught a glimpse of Elle in the flesh. Her mind was just playing tricks on her, that had to be it.

But no matter how she tried to convince herself that she’d dreamed up the image of Elle on the cliff, she knew in her heart she’d seen something . . . something that she shouldn’t have.

Trying to calm herself, she slid into her bunk and noticed that Nell appeared to be sleeping, one pajama-clad arm hanging down from the top bunk. Nell, the junior counselor, hadn’t been invited to the meeting tonight, as if she were insignificant.

“Why not make her come?” Annette had asked earlier in the day when she’d caught up with Jo-Beth hurrying out of the rec center.

“Someone’s got to stay for the girls, and besides, she’s not trustworthy,” Jo-Beth had snapped. Annette hadn’t argued. Jo-Beth had obviously been on edge, spoiling for a fight, and Annette knew Jo-Beth thought she was just Bernadette’s nerdy little sister, someone to be tolerated, but never accepted. Someone so immature that she had to be saddled with a secondary counselor.

Well, they’d find out differently, because she knew all their secrets, had worked to find out exactly what made each of them tick—their strengths, their weaknesses, and most especially their lies.

After freaking out about seeing what she’d thought was a ghost, Annette had ditched the others and headed back to camp. She’d slunk quietly into Monica’s cabin to find that Monica wasn’t in her bunk, her girls left unattended.

Where was she?

More jittery than ever, Annette had returned to her own cabin and had tried to calm herself, telling herself that everything was going to be all right. She was letting her imagination get the better of her, but the night had seemed to close in on her, and the dying embers of the campfire, a few sparse glowing coals, had pulsed like red, ghoulish eyes.

Stop it! For God’s sake, pull yourself together!

Letting her breath out slowly, she did a quick bed check to see that all of her charges, those quirky, well, let’s be honest, nerdy, little eleven-year-olds were still sleeping in their bunks. Once satisfied that all were safe, she kicked off her boots and slid into her open sleeping bag, where she listened to the sounds of the summer night and wondered about the events of the last couple of days. First Elle going missing and now Monica . . . not in her bed? Was she with Tyler? Someone else? Or had something happened to her?

Don’t go there. She’s fine. Just because Elle is missing . . . She swallowed hard. There had been talk of a murderer on the loose, an escaped prisoner. Could he have sneaked into the camp and kidnapped the girls? Could he even now be waiting outside one of the unlocked cabins, waiting to pounce again?

Her

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