Castaways in Time (The After Cilmeri Series) by Sarah Woodbury

Author:Sarah Woodbury [Woodbury, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: teen, young adult, alternate history, prince of wales, coming of age, science fiction, adventure, wales, fantasy, time travel
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

September, 2017

Callum

As they listened to the warning bell, sirens sounded from outside too. Cassie crossed into the office opposite and looked out the window to the street below. Callum followed and looked with her. Two ambulances and four police cars pulled down the ramp into the underground car park.

“Do you think all that’s for David?” Cassie said.

Callum found himself shaking his head in disbelief. “I want to say that it couldn’t be, but given the Office’s preoccupation with him and his family, I fear it is. We need to get to him now.”

Cassie pressed her lips together. “Could they have tortured him to the degree that he needs emergency medical care?”

“Christ, I wouldn’t have thought so. Let’s go.” Callum hit the door to the stairs with his shoulder and led Cassie down them at a run. Along the way, Callum pulled out the paper Jones had given him and opened it, hiding it in the palm of his hand.

“What does it say?” Cassie said. She’d taken Jones’ warning about cameras to heart and looked down as she spoke; the cameras were programmed for visuals but not sound.

“Jones has promised to wipe our movements since we left the cafeteria,” Callum said. “And he’s arranged for a vehicle.”

“I thought he didn’t want to help us?” she said.

“Jones has always been an odd bird,” Callum said. “But thank God for him.”

At this hour of the day, Callum hoped they wouldn’t run into anyone coming up the stairwell. He had to trust that Jones was continuing to track them and would scrub their presence if he could. Other than worrying about the danger involved, if he had to share this adventure with anyone, he was glad it was with Cassie. She never panicked; she rarely became angry; and she knew him so well that she could guess what he was thinking almost before he thought it himself.

They came out of the stairwell into sub-basement one at the same instant that the second ambulance pulled into the underground car park. A dozen men in black jackets faced the entrance but none turned around to see them. Callum caught Cassie’s hand and pulled her down the long line of parked vehicles to an older model SUV second from the end, which had been backed into its parking space.

“I can’t see what’s happening from here!” Cassie said.

“You don’t need to.” Callum traced with one finger the narrow dent in the left fender; this was the very vehicle he and Natasha had ridden in when they’d driven to Chepstow Castle ten months earlier. He moved at a crouch to the driver’s side door.

“What are you doing?” Cassie said.

“I still have my ID, which I can show to the guard at the exit. In this vehicle, I can get us out of the car park.” Security was designed to prevent unauthorized personnel from getting into the car park, not out of it. Only a person who’d already passed through security, either in the lobby or at the car park’s entrance, had access to the cars.

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