Chapter 31

Sadie’s blood went cold.

Staying around Trevor had been one of the worst decisions she could have made.

She’d been wrong. She didn’t need to keep him close.

She needed to get far away.

Her heart pounding in her ears, she tried to think through a plan. If she stuck around much longer, he might kill her. She might be out of time—especially if that man Trevor was meeting with was as dangerous as her gut told her he was.

Trevor still talked to the stranger outside.

She only had minutes to act.

Quietly, she slipped her phone back into her pocket. Then she crept from the stall toward the bathroom door.

She cracked it open.

The door didn’t make a sound.

She stepped outside. Let the door close behind her.

Still no sounds.

She peered toward where Trevor now stood. He couldn’t see her. He was still talking to that man. Still distracted.

Wasting no more time, she hurried to the opposite side of the building.

Then she took off in a desperate run across the parking lot toward the tree-lined street in the distance.

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Trevor sighed, ready for a break from this conversation with Larchmont.

What was taking Sadie so long?

He didn’t want to rush her. But she really had been in the bathroom a long time.

He turned away from Larchmont and toward the bathroom window. “Sadie?”

This time, there was no answer.

Tension crept up his spine.

He and Larchmont exchanged a look.

Trevor peered around the corner in time to see Sadie darting across the parking lot.

Had she overheard part of his conversation with Larchmont?

Or had her memories returned?

Trevor took off after her. “Sadie!”

She didn’t look back at him.

Instead, she charged full speed ahead, fleeing as if her life depended on it.

He had to catch her. To explain. To make things right.

Just as that thought filled his mind, a car squealed into the parking lot.

Flashbacks of Sadie being hit filled him.

Not again. Please, Lord, not again . . .

“Look out!” he called.

Instead, the driver slammed on brakes. A man in black jumped from the vehicle. Grabbed Sadie. Threw her into the back seat.

No! Trevor bolted toward the car.

But before he could stop them, the car peeled out of the parking lot.

With Sadie inside.