Chapter 34
The footage was shaky, blurred, but there was no mistaking the terror on the faces of the people being marched into the largest pavilion at the Easton Showgrounds. Armed guards urged their captives along with hard shoves or by brandishing weapons. Men, women, children, they stumbled along, many crying, all of them casting fearful glances at the guards.
The screen went blank, remaining that way for a few seconds before words appeared; words that filled me with dread.
‘He’s going to kill them all if I don’t hand myself in.’
Sam spun me around to face him. ‘That is not happening. I lost you once. I am not standing by and watching you die a second time.’
I gazed into his hazel eyes, reading his determination to keep me alive. ‘We can’t stop him on our own. We need Cade and his
