The kitchen timer went off, waking Allie, who’d fallen asleep in a tangle of shower curtains. She quickly shut it off and wondered if Cassie had found Kylie and Adria. Even more so, she wondered if Travis had found her. The fact that her sister hadn’t returned was a very bad sign.
Cassie will be fine, she told herself. She always pulls through these things.
Still terrified, but unable to sit still anymore, she grabbed the ax and walked timidly through the kitchen area until she reached an exit leading outside of the mall. When she saw that it was still dark outside, she frowned.
Had she slept longer than an hour? Why was it dark still?
“Allie!”
She froze. Was it Cassie? She couldn’t say for certain.
“I’m over here!” she hollered back, hoping at the last minute that she hadn’t given h
