“Bea. Go.Please.”
Moving solely on instinct, I scramble to my feet, swaying as I do it.
“You bastard!” Mack shouts.
“Coward!” Indy snaps. “Face me like a man!”
Flesh hits flesh again.
What little I can see blurs with tears.
“Bea.” Indy’s voice is the calm in the storm. “Hide. I will find you. I promise.”
Then, a beat later, he pleads, “Please, Bea. Go.Please.”
I don’t want to.
I’m scared to leave him.
But I trust him, too.
So I run.
Stumbling. Ricocheting off walls when the light cuts out. Feeling hot blood coat my hands every time I fall.
But I do it because he asked me to.
Because I trust him.
After what seems like an eternity, but is probably less than a minute, I hit the V in the tunnel and take off to the left, into the pitch-black. Using my hands to feel my way, I travel a little further before finding a small crevice notched in the wall.
Is it far enough to hide but close enough for Indy to find me?
Willhe find me?
Will he be okay?
Once I’m crammed into the crevice, the reality of it hits me.
We’re somewhere in an abandoned mine. The tunnels could collapse. Indy’s fighting a man with a deadly drug and at least one gun that I saw. And Indy’s unarmed. Restrained with his arms tied behind his back.
Belatedly, I remember the earrings Indy gave me back at Blade and Arrow. Ones with little GPS tracking units in them and a button to press so if I’m ever in trouble, they can find me. I triggered the alert back when we were still in the van, as soon as I realized Indy was alive and my panic attack subsided.
But his team is across the country.
We’re deep in the mines, surrounded by tons of stone that will probably block the signal.
So how can they find us?
And what if Indy?—
I can’t bear to think it. Hehasto be okay.
I can’t lose him.
Let him be okay.Please.
CHAPTER 19
