“I thought you had left me, that you’d forgotten about me.”
“I could never forget you, Wren.”
CHAPTER THREE
WREN
Elias made us keep driving for three hours before we arrived at a hotel. We stopped once, about an hour ago, to stretch our legs and eat, but I can feel the tension radiating off everyone, and I’m glad to find somewhere we can finally settle for the night.
“I’ll go get us a room. Wait here,” Elias says before jumping out and heading inside to the lobby.
The second he’s out of view, Pete crosses his arms and narrows his eyes at the door he just vanished through. “I don’t trust him.”
“Peter, he helped us all escape,” I remind him gently.
“I’m still not buying his story.”
“What other reason could he have for doing all of this?”
“We don’t really know anything about him for certain,” Sly says, taking Pete’s side. “He could be lying about being an FBI agent. He had access to Robert’s cameras; he could be working with him, not against him.”
The thought sends a chill down my spine. Elias wouldn’t take me back there, would he? It’s hard to believe he’d betrayme like that, but I haven’t seen or heard from him in seven years.
“He may not be the same person you knew when you were nineteen,” Pete adds.
I think about the way he’s been looking at me, and everything he’s done to help us escape, and what they’re saying just doesn’t add up.
“No,” I say, shaking my head. “You’re wrong. If he’s working with Robert, he never would have helped me escape in the first place.”
Sly presses his lips together, forming a tight line. I can tell he wants to argue, but he knows my point is valid.
“Either way, I’m not leaving you alone with him. I don’t trust him,” Dex says, reaching over and squeezing my hand.
“I second that,” Pete adds.
“I agree,” Sly says with a nod at the same time Jagger signs that he agrees too.
I sigh, glancing around at them, then shrug my shoulders. “At least you four agree on something for once.”
“He’s coming back,” Dex says, nodding his head at where Elias is jogging back toward us with a room key card in hand.
He climbs back into the passenger seat and points to the side of the building. “If we park over there, we can use the side entrance. Less chance of being seen.”
“Isn’t there some safe house or something you can find for us?” Pete asks as Sly drives us around the parking lot.
“They all have alarms that will alert head office if used.”
“I thought you were some amazing hacker? Can’t you bypass it somehow?” Dex asks skeptically as we pull to a stop.
“It’s not that easy, but maybe. I’ll see if I can work onsomething. If I can, it would be much better than staying at hotels. There is too much risk here, I don't like it.”
He glances back at me before climbing out of the vehicle. We all pile out, grabbing most of the duffel bags as we follow Elias into the side entrance and up two flights of stairs to our room.
Once inside, I look around, surprised by the size. It’s a suite, but much bigger than the last one, complete with a large sitting area, big enough to seat us all around the TV, a table with six chairs, and on either side of the room are doors that look like they lead to large bedrooms.
“Wren?” Elias motions me over to one of the bedrooms. “You and I can take this room.”
Before I even have time to process that statement, Dex and Sly are in front of me, blocking me from Elias’ view.
