When Darkness Falls, Book 2 by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2017-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

“I can’t believe you’d do that, Alex. After how far we’ve come. After everything we’ve gone through. All for you. You just walk away? You make me walk away? How can you do that?”

I listened to Suzy’s voice and I kept on walking. It was dark now. All around us, trees, as we kept on going through the woods. I listened to our footsteps crack through the branches and I heard Suzy’s shouting, her crying, and I knew for a fact that I was right to feel guilty.

After all, she was right. We’d just walked away from Will. And not just Will—Ellie, Kaileigh, Sarah.

We’d stood opposite Jon and his people as they’d held these people we cared about dearly as hostages.

I’d had a chance, just for a moment, to get my revenge on Jon.

But I hadn’t taken it.

I hadn’t, because I hadn’t been able to.

And now we were walking away.

“Suzy, please,” Peter said.

“No,” she said. I didn’t look back at her, but I didn’t have to. I heard her shuffling free of Peter, picking up her pace. And it wasn’t long before I felt a hand smack into my back. “Hey,” she said. “Hey! Look at me.”

I stopped, then. I stopped because I realised there was no way I could just keep on walking, not anymore. I had to face Suzy head on. I had to face up to our problems, head on.

I turned around, sour taste in my mouth, and looked right into Suzy’s eyes.

There were dark shadows underneath them, bigger than usual. Her bottom lip was quivering. She didn’t look in a good state. And I felt guilty for that. I felt so guilty for that.

“You take us out into the woods to get revenge for your son’s death. We come with you. We come all that way with you. And what do you do? You turn away.”

“I did what I had to do to keep them safe.”

Suzy’s eyes widened. “Keep them safe?” She laughed in disbelief. “Keep them safe? Really? That’s what that was? Because from where I was standing, that bastard had a knife to your wife’s neck. Keep them safe?”

“And if we hadn’t walked away, he would’ve used that knife.”

I started to turn, to carry on walking.

But Suzy grabbed me again and pulled me back.

“I appreciate this is difficult for you. Really, I do. But this isn’t a game anymore, Alex. This isn’t just some quest for revenge. They have your wife. They have my son. And you can’t tell me you’re just going to give up. Not when you got us into this mess in the first place.”

I narrowed my eyes. “What?”

Suzy lowered her head. “Screw it.”

“No. You said I got us into this. What do you mean by that?”

Suzy shook her head. And I could tell right then that she wasn’t going to respond.

“She’s right.”

I looked over Suzy’s shoulder.

It was Peter.

I shook my head. “Not you too.”

“If you’d been more forgiving, right from the very start, then maybe we wouldn’t be out here.

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