Chapter Thirty-six
Nancy twisted the key into the elevator and pushed the
button. Nothing happened. She could hear Jarrod Bennet on the inside, screaming
Hollister’s name over and over again. Desperate to get inside, she twisted the
key again and tapped ferociously at the button. Still nothing.
“Help me,” she ordered Neil Harris as she slipped her
fingers into the doors. She grunted and strained, and he tried to position
himself under her, but it wasn’t working.
“Move to the side. You get on one side of the doors and
I’ll get on the other, and let’s see if we can open these,” he told her.
She worried as it suddenly went silent in the elevator.
Frustrated, she punched the button panel. “Open, you bastard.”
As if on command, the doors burst open. Hollister lay on
her back, not m
