CHAPTER FORTY
Hannah
Hannah thought about the other girl constantly – who she was and how her parents and friends were coping. She knew that a girl just a bit older than her had gone missing a few months ago. Maybe it was her. Maybe she was still alive in the mineshaft.
Hannah hated to think she was lying there, hurt, waiting for someone to come, slowly dying. She also didn’t want to end up like that. It would break Mum’s heart. And Riley and Coops would be stuffed up – that’s if they’d gotten home safely. Duane would be sad too, probably. He wasn’t a bad person, not compared with Ealdy. If she got out of this, she’d try to cut him some slack. Maybe they could get along okay.
She sighed, knowing she had to turn her mood around. She wasn’t going to get out by feeling black or waiting fo
