Chapter Twenty-Three
They would get out of this alive, Ryder hoped. But when they did his life would be unrecognizable. The business was done, his friendships with Jamie and Eric were a fallacy. He couldn’t know if there were other SW employees involved. He deserved all he got. He’d been an i***t, naive and idealistic. The woman he cared so much for had been tortured in a captivity of his making. He might not have been the one to turn the key in the lock, but he was as liable as the one who did.
Lacie didn’t know how long she’d been there. He’d bet it felt like months, maybe years. She wouldn’t have known her parents were there. She wouldn’t have seen the televised appeal. Under normal circumstances, she had been an insomniac, this situation wouldn’t have been conducive to rest and relax
