Page 51 of Creed
Specifically, the right truck.
Great, now I just needed to get Kayden, myself, and the kids onto the truck. Then we’d not only have an escape vehicle, but also a way for Brody and Magnus to track us. If everything went according to plan, they’d meet us at the truck’s next stop.
When the trucks were loaded up, the drivers climbed into the front seat. It was now or never.
Climbing out of the storage locker, I hoped Robyn had been successful.
I was careful to stay out of the line of sight of the drivers and I poked my head out of the garage, looking out at the line of trees not far away.
From under the cover of a large bush, I saw Kayden waving me down.
His movements were conspicuous. He was going to be spotted, and a man hiding in the forest with two children would seem suspicious no matter how you looked at it.
Unable to explain my plan, I hastily waved him over to me. Thankfully, he complied without hesitation and met me beside the garage with both kids.
“Creed? What are we doing?”
“Get in the truck.”
“What? But?—”
There wasn’t time to explain, and I cut him off by turning away and headed to the back of the truck we needed. It was locked, but the lock was old and easily gave way to the lock pick that I’d prepared earlier.
Just as the truck rumbled to life, I pulled up the rolling door just high enough for Kayden and the kids to squeeze under.
“Get in.”
Kayden hesitated a moment. He still didn’t know what I was doing, and from his perspective this probably seemed like insanity.
I implored him with my eyes to trust me.
Swallowing down his obvious nerves, Kayden brought the kids over to the truck.
“All right. You two. Get on.”
Together, we piled the kids into the truck. By then, the first of the two trucks pulled out of the garage. Our truck would soon follow, so there will wasn’t time for me to explain my plan to Kayden. I just shoved him toward the opening in the door and implored him to get on.
He had to lie on his stomach and slide himself under the door, similar to how he’d gotten past the fence surrounding the cult, but this time I made sure to leave enough room for him.
I was just about to follow, when the sound of shouting caught my attention.
The first truck had been stopped by a familiar silver car blocking its path. I didn’t recognize any of the people that climbed out of the car, but I understood well enough when they started demanding to search the truck.
They didn’t even know for certain that we were in this town, but these cult members were certainly thorough with their search.
It was too optimist to think that they might search the first truck and be satisfied. They were going to search the second one, too, and when they did, they would find us.
Coming to a quick decision, I grabbed one of the packages off the truck that was about the size of a book—after making sure that it wasn’t the same package whose number I’d given to Brody—and tucked it under my arm.
“Stay on this truck until it reaches its next destination, then get off. Try to make sure no one sees you.”
Kayden opened his mouth to demand what was going on, but I closed the door before he could say a word.
Hoisting the package that I held a little higher in my arm, I took a deep breath and stepped out from behind the truck.
I stuck to the wall, sneaking around in an over-exaggerated fashion that made me feel like a cartoon. It took longer than I thought it would, but eventually, they noticed me. I kept my body angled toward them that would show off the package that I held under my arm, hoping that from a distance it would be mistaken for a journal.
My rouse seemed to work, because the cult members started shouting to each other to catch me. Once I was certain that they had abandoned their plan to search the trucks, I took off running back into the cover of the forest.
