Page 97 of Rafe: Sins of the Father

The three of them storm out of the room.

The moment they do, Fiona scrambles over to me. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine.” I’m so relieved they left without doing more to us. The thought has my eyes flicking up to hers. “Did they hurt you?”

She shakes her head, and I notice the bruise on her cheek. “Not in the way you’re thinking.”

“Thank God.”

“I wish they hadn’t left the zip ties on you,” she murmurs. “There’s nothing here to cut them with. I’ve already searched the room and the attached bath.”

“Is he right about the sensors?” I ask.

She moves to a sliding glass door that leads out to a balcony and points to one. “Yep. Right there.”

“Did you try?”

“The first night. They were in here so fast.” She points to the bruise on her face. “Connor gave me that. So, who is this guy, and how does he know you and Rafe?”

I tell her the entire story.

“Shit.” She frowns. “Why aren’t you with my brother anymore?”

“He dumped me.”

“That’s not the story I heard from Kyle. He said you dumped Rafe. Said you haven’t answered a single text or call.”

“What?” I shake my head. “I haven’t gotten any. Not one. I swear. I’ve been trying to call him. He won’t answer me.”

“That’s weird.”

“So, what’s out those sliders?” I ask.

“There’s a boat dock, and I don’t know if it’s a river; it kind of looks like a man-made canal. I can’t see any other houses close by, and on the other side, it’s just farmland.”

“Is there a boat?” I ask.

“There’s a kayak. Come here.”

I move to the windows, and she shows me the dock. There are some little lights around it. She points.

“See there? The dark green one.”

It’s upside down on the decking next to the structure.

“If we can get to that, we could sneak away.”

“You don’t think the road—”

She shakes her head. “It’s too open. There’d be nowhere to hide. But, if we can get out, they probably would assume that’s the way we’d go. It might buy us enough time to make it downstream.”

“Which way?”

“That way.” She points to the right. “I’ve seen boats coming from that direction.”

“Yeah, but first we have to get out of here. How do we do that if an alarm is going to sound if a door or window opens?”

“I’ve thought of that. I’ve done nothing but think of that. We have these sensors at our house, but we don’t have any on the overhead garage doors, because my dad always locked them from the inside with a sliding bolt. Maybe, if we’re lucky, there won’t be any sensors on the ones here.”

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