Five Survive by Holly Jackson
Author:Holly Jackson [Jackson, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2022-11-29T00:00:00+00:00
The song continued, saxophone screeching up and down.
âBugged?â Reyna repeated. Oliver signaled for her to lower her voice, to hide it under the music. âLike with a microphone?â
âHow else could he know everything he seems to know?â Oliver replied.
âWhen would he have bugged the RV?â Reyna returned, just as the chorus did, and Red had to strain to hear. âWe havenât left it unattended.â
âMaybe when we were changing the first tire?â Simon spoke with the music. âWe were all out there, on the other side to the door. Red and Arthur were off somewhere. He could have snuck in then?â
Oliver shook his head. âNot when we were jacking up the RV. We would have felt it.â
âWhen, then?â Reyna asked. âWhen we stopped for lunch, for dinner at the rest stop? But we double-checked it was locked.â
âMaybe even before that,â Oliver said. âMaybe before today. You heard him; they planned for everything, theyâve been planning this awhile. Maybe he planted the bug before Simon even borrowed the RV. Maybe itâs something to do with your uncle.â Oliver looked at Simon as he said that, a shadow of suspicion in his eyes. Simon sniffed. âOr maybe itâs in the stuff we brought onto the RV. In our bags. We need to search everywhere, find it, so we can get our advantage back.â
His eyes flashed as the song drew to an end, rallying them all. He dragged the cursor back and restarted the song.
âWeâll have to turn the music off so he doesnât get suspicious, but no one mention what weâre doing. Just speak normally. Okay?â
Yes, sir, right away, sir. Red blinked. It seemed Oliver had already forgotten that two people just died less than fifteen minutes ago, bleeding out on the road out there, blooms of red around their once-heads. He was already on to the next thing. Moves and countermoves. Sniper takes a turn, then them. Win-win solutions, as Catherine Lavoy would say, but so far theyâd won nothing. It seemed Oliver wanted to avoid the other solution, the most obvious one: finding the secret that the voice on the walkie-talkie wanted. It wasnât Redâs he was after, couldnât be. But now Red was starting to doubt herself, dark thoughts slipping in through the gaps, through holes in her head. Was she doing the exact same thing as Oliver, as the rest of them too, maybe, clinging to her secret because she didnât want to lose it? She needed the plan. Needed it. Oliver Lavoy didnât need anything, he already had it all.
âRed, you keep cycling up through those radio channels while you look. Okay, letâs do this.â
Oliver paused the music, holding his finger to his lips, making sure they all saw. He pointed to himself and Reyna, and then to the back bedroom and the bunks. Red he pointed into the kitchen. Simon the bathroom. Arthur right here at the dining table and sofa bed. Maddy up front in the cockpit. They nodded and dispersed.
Red went to the refrigerator first, pulling it open, pressing her body close to the cool air that seeped out of it.
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