No one had followed them.
Kerri watched all the cars around them with wide eyes, hoping for a cop. Absalom, Sandra. Someone had to have figured it out by now. Mona, please. Understand what I was saying. By the time Lee merged off the highway and started to take back roads through the Muskoka territory, Kerri knew no one was coming.
She would have had a better chance of being flagged if she’d been in the trunk. Most cars now had the anti-kidnap button inside that blinked. There would have been more ways to escape then, too. Now they were too far away from any kind of civilization that running was a fool’s errand. She’d freeze even in the summertime before morning. And deep down, Kerri knew she didn’t want to leave Lee, even if she had no idea what the end game in all this really was.
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