Laura POV
The world outside the car blurred into streaks of green and grey as we sped along an unfamiliar road. My pulse was a drum in my ears. I had already screamed, cried, and pleaded, but he hadn’t answered a single one of my questions.
Was this it? Was he kidnapping me now? Was he going to kill me? s***h my throat the way he’d done to James? My chest rose and fell in shallow gasps. My fingers clutched at the edge of the leather seat until my knuckles went white.
He sat beside me, calm and unreadable, staring out of the tinted window as though none of this mattered. The driver kept his eyes ahead, silent as a shadow. Every second the car kept moving made my terror swell.
Finally, his deep voice cut through my spiraling thoughts.
“Stop.”
The single command cracked the silence lik
