A Dark Place to Dream by Clover Cait
Author:Clover, Cait
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: No Box Books
Published: 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
Twenty-One
Ian clamps onto her shoulders and in a low voice rasps, âWhat the fuck are you doing here?â
âIâIâ ââ
âYou canât be here.â He grips her wrist and tugs her after him, away from the people.
Allie remains quiet as he drags her with him, turning every so often and getting farther away from anyone nearby. Finally, theyâre in the dimly lit tunnel she thinks looks familiar.
Ian yanks her close and stares without blinking into her eyes. âYou were never here. You donât know anything about this. You wonât tell anyone. Because if you do, youâll be in danger. And not just you, but Gavin, me, your parents, everyone you know and care for. Do you understand?â
She canât believe what heâs saying, but the look in his eyes is sincere. And scared.
âIâm not lying when I tell you that Charles and Sylvia arenât the only ones to fear. Thereâs another group that makes them look like playground bullies. Conspiracies and murder are just the tip of what theyâre up to. You canât know.â He shakes her. âTell me you donât know.â
âI donât know anything.â
âAnd you wonât tell Gavin. If you love him, youâll say nothing.â
She knows Ian loves his cousin, and if heâs scared, she is too. âI wonât. I wonât say anything.â
âGood. Go home. Weâll never speak of this. Youâll never speak about this. Not even in the privacy of your own home, your car, nowhere.â
âWhat? N-not in my house?â Oh no. Is the house bugged? The car? Do people listen to her? Do they hear her with Gavin, making love, arguing? Are they watching her?
âShit. Allie, stop. Just go home. None of this is real. Itâs all a bad dream,â he mutters. âLike the rest of your fucked-up life.â
âIan?â She is so confused.
He shocks her anew by pressing a kiss to her forehead. âI love you, Allie. But you need to stop digging. You wonât like what you find.â He shoves her into another room with a wooden stairway. Not the way sheâd come at all. âGo. Now.â
She rushes from him and climbs upstairs and through a hidden panel into the bathroom of an abandoned house. The sun has finally set, leaving the area dark. She exits the building through the back, not sure where she is. But after walking for a good ten minutes, she spots the corner of Shunpike and Levy.
She hurries to her car and drives, not sure where she should go.
Ida told her to trust no one. Ian said the same.
Since her phone still wonât turn on and she canât trust her already anxious parents or Gavin about what just happened, she thinks about calling Leia but doesnât want to drag her friend into the chaos. If Ianâs own cousin isnât safe, Leia might not be either.
But there is one person Allie knows she can trust. Detective Felix Pryor. Heâs a man outside her community, apart from her life yet knowledgeable about casework. A man who can help her and is known to have suspected anyone and everyone when it comes to solving crime.
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