Hunter:Now. Before we drive through the place and break it open
“I should go now.”
“So you’ll think about it?” Before I could get to the door, Austin took wider steps and blocked me from leaving.
“Yeah. But I gotta go now.”
He stared at me, puzzled.
“It’s really weird that you came here out of the blue, in the middle of the day.” It seemed too good to be true. “How old are you? Don’t you have school?”
“Yeah, but I told you, my mom lost her job.”
Austin yanked me hard, making me bounce off his chest.
“You look like you go to that school for those bratty little rich kids. You don’t need money, do you?”
Oh no.
“I actually do.”
He got in my face. He reeked of alcohol so badly that I held my breath.
“If I find out that asshole Hunter’s behind this . . .”
I didn’t have the guts to look him in the eye.
“First I’ll kill him, then I’ll come take you from your home.”
“What? What the hell are you—”
“While you’re sound asleep in your bed.”
When he finally let go of my arm to go back to his office, I stood there, frozen against the door, terrified.
My phone started vibrating like crazy, reminding me that I had to bolt. I ran to the main entrance and jumped into James’s car and we sped off from that nightmare.
I curled up on the back seat, shaking and upset. But nobody seemed to be paying attention to me.
“What the fuck’s gotten into you, James?”
I jumped. Will had just raised his voice, and I’d never seen him so angry.
“That was our chance! We could’ve taken the safety deposit box when the music was blasting, and you just stood their gawking like a dumbass!”
“It was too heavy. The safe was too heavy.”
“No, you stopped! What the fuck were you looking at?”
James shot me a look in the rearview mirror.
“Nothing. Everything okay back there?”
“Yeah.”
“James, are you listening to me? We could’ve gotten it!”
“Will, we couldn’t’ve dragged it by ourselves. Think about it—it weighed a ton.”
