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It’s not like Wyatt can’t handle everything there if I’m gone for a while.
If Emma needed me, I could stay in Michigan.
I had committed to being her advisor.
“As long as you need me there,” I promised, surprising myself because I really meant those words.
Emma came first at the moment.
For the first time in my life Last Hope and my contract work weren’t my only priority.
Nothing would tear me away from Emma until I knew she was going to be okay on her own in Cherry Cove.
Chapter 9
Emma
Ijumped a little at the sound of a bird outside the tiny window in our prison.
I’d been doing that since it had gotten dark.
Every little noise made me uptight.
Colin and I were laying together on the blanket, but I certainly wasn’t sleeping.
I was nervous, even though I was trying hard not to be.
“Relax, Emma,” Colin said soothingly next to my ear. “They’ll be here as soon as the kidnappers are asleep.”
I swallowed hard. My heart had been like a lump in my throat for the last hour.
I was afraid for my friends.
I was worried about Colin.
And I really needed to get home safe.
“I think I just want this to be over,” I replied as I tried to force myself to relax.
Giving in to fear wasn’t going to help our situation right now.
“Are you getting tired of eating those horrible MREs?” he asked jokingly, trying to make me relax.
I took a deep breath and let it out. “I’m more tired of using a bucket for a toilet,” I said, trying to keep things light, too. “And I’ll never take a hot shower for granted ever again.”
I knew I was smelling pretty rank right now. I was dirty. I wassweaty during the day when it was hot in this filthy prison.
But Colin held me tightly anyway like he didn’t notice any of those things.
“You’ll get that shower,” he promised. “Do you remember everything I told you?”
Remember?
Yeah, I recalled everything and those details had been running through my mind all evening.
Brock and Nate would come in and out without speaking.
Not a word would be said until we were out of hearing range of the kidnappers.
