Chapter 26
“Maybe you’ll get home faster if you ditch the bike and run.”
Chris’s chuckle came through the speaker of my helmet, and I smiled in return. Maybe I was going a little fast, but I was looking forward to getting some alone time at last with Sara tonight. She’d been with either Nate or Roland and Peter since she woke up yesterday, and I hadn’t wanted to intrude on their reunion.
But now I needed time with her. I’d stopped by her room earlier to tell her I’d see her tonight, and her shy smile had told me she was looking forward to it, too.
I rounded the last curve in the road, and the tall gates of Westhorne came into view. A pit of dread formed in my stomach when I saw the gates hanging open with no security lights on and no one in sight.
“Chris,” I said.
“I see it,” he answ
