"No." Domino's quiet, but firm voice interrupted her siblings' fighting. "I'm not staying there."
Fabian frowned. "Domino, I don't think we have a choice right now."
I reached for her, putting my arm around her waist and pulling her to me. "She said she doesn't want to go."
Her siblings looked from me to her and then me again. Mattias swallowed and nodded.
"That's fine. Actually, yes. Let's... put you in a hotel for a few days."
Fabian cleared his throat and pointed to me. "You and Koi, I want you to be her new bodyguards."
"Bodyguards?" Marisol snapped. "Now she's got personal security?"
"Some tried to kill her, Marisol!" Fabian roared. She flinched back, but he kept going. He hurried around the table and grabbed her face, squeezing tightly. "We've got a dead cook on our hands because of your constant shit talking. Whatever fucking simp you convinced to do this fucked up. You tell him that when you see him."
"I don't know what you're talking about." She pushed him away.
"If I find out you had anything to do with this…" he warned.
"Noted." Marisol inhaled and turned around. "So now that she's got protection and none of us are the killers, what do we do with the body?"
Rule 27 - Swayze
Don’t forget to Ride the Cyclone!
"Hold on. Swayze, stay here. We're gonna need you." Marisol came over to where Koi and I were sitting with Domino, trying to figure out where we were going to stay. Not all hotels were pet-friendly, and she refused to leave Georgie.
"Why?" I demanded. I glanced behind her at Ruth's lifeless body, still on the ground. Fabian and Mattias were trying to figure out what they were going to do about it. Mattias looked up and came over.
"We can't afford word to get out that a murder happened here. Camp will get shut down, cops will be everywhere, and there's so many fucking violations, it would be the end of the park." Mattias tugged on his hair. He was the park's crisis manager and in full work mode. "My uncle and his lawyers could use this as a reason why we can't have the park."
"People are going to know she's missing. Her parents, other staff," Koi argued. "You can't just bury her in the woods and hope she doesn't come back up." He glared at Marisol, who looked at the ground quickly. What was he talking about?
"I know that," Mattias said, not batting an eye at Koi's comment. "Koi, I want you to take my sister and get out of here, like Fabian said. I'll call you when you can come back."
"I have to stay? Fuck you, I'm not getting blamed for this!" I pointed to my chest.
"You're not," Fabian deadpanned. "Koi, go on. Text me when you get to camp and reach somewhere safe."
My heart twisted as Koi took Domino's hand and led her and Georgie back into the woods. She tossed a glance over her shoulder at me. I'd give anything to trade places with him.
Everyone seemed to be waiting for them to be far enough away to start talking again.
"I have a plan," Mattias said. "We need to get the body to the park."
"The park? It's a mile to camp, and another half mile to the park," Mitchell chimed in. He'd been crying and rocking himself since we'd returned.
"It is, but our options are limited right now. Men, grab a limb, we'll get her to camp and toss her in a cart." Mattias waved us over to the body. I didn't move. I wasn't touching a corpse.
"If you don't do it, I'll tell the cops it was you," Marisol snarled. "It's your word against everyone."
I blinked and looked around. No one argued, but their silence was enough. If I didn't help them, I'd be taking the full blame for whatever happened to Ruth.
"Fuck you," I muttered as I strode over and grabbed an arm. Fabian, Mattias, and Blane took the other limbs, and Andrew held her up in the middle.
"Shouldn't someone take..." Mitchell finally stood. He pointed a shaky finger to the knife still deep in her belly. Marisol rolled her eyes and stormed over, ripping it out of the body as if it'd been a fork in a steak.
"Does this make it a little more palatable?" she asked Mitchell, who paled as he stared at Marisol waving the knife.
