Page 43 of Chasing Football Dreams

I frowned at her. "Isn't that why you are taking the evidence?"

She shook her head. "We can't give them stolen evidence. What if they are involved?"

"Someone had to give them a fake accident report to cover their tracks," Zoey continued explaining.

"Why did you take the photos?"

"Maybe it will help me to remember what happened that night,"

"We need to get out of here without getting spotted," They were going to come and look for us sooner than later.

She then handed me the envelope. “Head out. I will meet up with Eliza and we’ll meet you outside,”

“But they will suspect you of taking the envelope,”

“Yes, but they can’t do anything when I don’t have it,”

“Dammit, Zo. You can’t expect me to just leave you out for the wolves,”

She smiled up at me. “I am strong and fast enough to outrun them,”

I rested my forehead against hers and kissed her softly. “I love you,”

“I love you too, now get your butt out of here,” She pushed me towards the exit. It was difficult to leave but I did as she told me to. I met the guys outside the orphanage and noticed Andrew was as frustrated as I was.

“There they are,” Freddie exclaimed pointing to Eliza and Zoey running out from the building and making their way towards the fence.

“Get in the car,” I ordered everyone watching Zoey help Eliza over the fence. She tried to take Eliza’s hand but Eliza wasn’t strong enough to pull her over.

“She’s stuck,” I muttered in disbelief wanting to go over there to help but she shocked me when she took a few steps back from the fence. It looked as if she counted before, she ran and jumped, and pulled herself over the fence.

“Are we going to pretend that we didn’t just see that?” Andrew asked, shocked as I was. Zoey must have done this before to make it look so damn easy.

I got behind the wheel bringing my SUV to life and met Eliza and Zoey down the street.

“Hey,” Zoey greeted with a smile.

“Hey,” I greeted back pulling us out of here and headed straight home.

“Do you want to alert Shane?” I asked, watching her hold tightly onto the envelope.

She shook her head. "He's going want to go to the police station,"

"That sounds like a good idea since they can skip town and disappear,"

"I don't trust anyone. So many people were involved in my abduction to cover the kidnappers' footsteps. They will only alert the person that we are on to them,"

"They already must suspect since you took the file,"

Zoey shrugged and looked out the window unbothered. "They must first prove that I took the files,"

I looked in the rearview mirror as Andrew had his arm wrapped around Eliza. “Zoey pulled the alarm as a kid as a prank,” I noted, looking at how chilled they were.

Zoey and Eliza chuckled. “Eliza snuck out at nights with boys and when she had to sneak back inside but one night, she was almost caught and I rang the bell to safe her ass,”

Eliza giggled. “Zoey was always the protector while I was sabotaging everything,”

Zoey rolled her eyes. “Oh, please. You knew from the moment you met me that I was far from a good girl,”

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