My stomach twisted into knots. So much could have gone wrong, and it all would have been his doing.
He carefully moved us to stay in the shadows.
“I’m sorry, Tess. I know it doesn’t count for much to you, but it does to me. Now…” His voice turned sharper, and I knew the talk was over. We were out of time. “There is a river four miles from here, which leads to a lake. You have to reach it, or the drone will find you.”
“How? I can’t seem to outrun it.”
“You won’t, unless you hit the river. It reads body heat. Get in the water and hold your damn breath. Gimme your hand.”
I pulled away, annoyed.
“Give it to me,” he nearly shouted. I did, and he sliced my palm and squeezed the blood over the grass. “You never go down easy, so we need to play that up.”
My head swarmed with a million quest
