Five Survive by Holly Jackson

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.

“Bugged?” Reyna repeated. Oliver signaled for her to lower her voice, to hide it under the music. “Like with a microphone?”

“How else could he know everything he seems to know?” Oliver replied.

“When would he have bugged the RV?” Reyna returned, just as the chorus did, and Red had to strain to hear. “We haven’t left it unattended.”

“Maybe when we were changing the first tire?” Simon spoke with the music. “We were all out there, on the other side to the door. Red and Arthur were off somewhere. He could have snuck in then?”

Oliver shook his head. “Not when we were jacking up the RV. We would have felt it.”

“When, then?” Reyna asked. “When we stopped for lunch, for dinner at the rest stop? But we double-checked it was locked.”

“Maybe even before that,” Oliver said. “Maybe before today. You heard him; they planned for everything, they’ve been planning this awhile. Maybe he planted the bug before Simon even borrowed the RV. Maybe it’s something to do with your uncle.” Oliver looked at Simon as he said that, a shadow of suspicion in his eyes. Simon sniffed. “Or maybe it’s 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.”

His eyes flashed as the song drew to an end, rallying them all. He dragged the cursor back and restarted the song.

“We’ll have to turn the music off so he doesn’t get suspicious, but no one mention what we’re doing. Just speak normally. Okay?”

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 they’d 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 wasn’t Red’s he was after, couldn’t 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 didn’t want to lose it? She needed the plan. Needed it. Oliver Lavoy didn’t need anything, he already had it all.

“Red, you keep cycling up through those radio channels while you look. Okay, let’s do this.”

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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