One Hundred and One

I waited until Rufus was completely out of the house before speaking. I didn’t have a plan yet, but I wasn’t dumb enough to follow him to meet Kayden. Who knew what that psychopath would do with me?

“Leave, now,” I told my father as I untied Gloria from the chair.

My father stood still as if he hadn’t heard me. I really didn’t have the time for this.

“Why are you still standing there?” I asked him. “Hurry up so you both can leave while you still can.”

“It can’t be that easy, Cass,” he said. “He’ll find us soon enough or Kayden will send someone else after us.”

I groaned in frustration. “So what do you expect me to do? Follow him?”

“I’m not saying that, but…”

“You want to die!” I screamed, running my hand through my hair, a habit I had learned from Davis. “Isn’t it better to try than to just stand around and wait to be killed? I don’t know what you expect me to do, but I’m not following anyone anywhere. We’re all escaping one way or another and it’s fine if you don’t want to follo