The Renegade by Amy Dunne

Author:Amy Dunne [Dunne, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781626394537
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2015-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Alex lost all sense of time. It seemed like she’d been sitting in the back of the Land Rover for a long time. The black material covering her head made it hard to breathe, but she had to force herself to remain calm and not panic. Nothing mattered but Murphy.

She’d tried to concentrate on the movements of the vehicle. Her initial plan was to try to record all of the turns they made to memory. It didn’t take long for that plan to go to shit. The vehicle’s engine was too loud and she was rocked from side to side with the turbulence and bumps from the potholes in the road.

The bag did exactly as her inhospitable captors wanted—she was disorientated and too physically and emotionally drained to fight it. Not wanting to give up entirely, she set herself the task of listening to her surroundings and captors. She needed to gain some sort of advantage. Tuning out the roar of the engine as best she could, she identified two male voices in the front. Not a lot of what they were saying made a great deal of sense, but she made a mental note anyway. Snippets mentioning the name Elijah were spoken frequently, but everything else was drowned out by the engine. Her senses pricked when she heard Gemma’s name.

“I’d hate to be in her shoes. She better speak up and tell David everything, or else she’s going to be in for a whole world of pain.”

“David knows it’s Ben. Hell, we all know it’s that little shit.”

“We don’t know it for sure.”

“Yeah, we do. The fence was cut from outside the camp, dumbass. There’s no way Gemma could do that. Someone cut her out. There ain’t no one else who knows about the camp, and even if there was, they’d have come inside and ransacked the place, not just taken one girl away. It was Ben. And there’s no way he ain’t going to be caught, and when he is, there’s going to be hell to pay. Kidnapping another man’s wife is punishable by death, but when that man is David, shit, I don’t even want to think about what the little shit is going to experience.”

“Hey, guys. Can we change the subject please?” Scott asked from beside Alex, making her flinch with surprise.

“Oh yeah. Forgot you and him were pals. I’d keep quiet about it if I was you. Guilty by association and all that.”

She felt Scott fidget but he didn’t reply. The mood became subdued and none of the guys spoke. From what she’d learnt eavesdropping, she was worried about Gemma’s safety. She needed to try and get her story straight with her. The last thing she wanted to do was create more problems for the girl, especially as her actions now seemed like a sacrifice. No wonder she’d looked scared to death. And as for the lad, Ben, she hoped he didn’t get caught, because the repercussions sounded horrendous.

She blew a breath upward, cooling the condensation on her sweaty face.

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