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  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
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  46. Acknowledgments
  47. About the Author
  48. A Sneak Peek of You Will Be Mine
  49. 1
  50. Back Cover

The front door slams behind us. Theo and I jump and turn around. I grip his arm as we watch Owen smiling from behind the glass window in the door.

“No,” I whisper. The others are still trapped in there.

Owen’s grin widens, and he mouths run.

17

We make it to the back of the building, where the woods are thicker and the trees will hide us.

They’ve let us go. Why have they let us go? They haven’t.

Of course, they haven’t!

The realization slams me in the face.

“It’s a trap,” I say, digging my fingers into Theo’s arm as I plant my feet. Owen is the only one of them I saw. He told us to run, but he won’t let us get away. Somewhere Caleb and Matt are waiting.

Theo’s black eyebrows knit together in the middle. “Who cares? We need to try!” He yanks his arm from my grip.

“We can’t do this, and we can’t leave the others in there!”

“What choice do we have, Piper?”

I turn my head, my body following suit as I do a one-eighty to check the surroundings. Trees line the yard, the building nestled nicely in the middle. Matt and Caleb are somewhere in those woods, waiting.

This is just one more part of the game.

There is something square on the metal siding of the building. A window? It’s too far away to see properly, but it could be a window. Where is it? Looks like it’s down at our end of the building, but we certainly don’t have any accessible windows.

“We have to go back in,” I tell him. The door is locked, so through the window, maybe. They won’t expect that. But we don’t know where it leads or if it even opens.

He grips my upper arms, his chocolate eyes pleading with me to listen to him. “If we get away, we can get help for the others.”

The world whizzes past as I spin around. “We’re not going to get away. Can’t you see that?”

“We’ll split up.”

Worst idea ever. “It’s still one-on-one. They want to hunt us, Theo. You know they’ll kill us before we get to the road.”

He still has hold of me, but I manage to swing my arms around his and place them on his strong shoulders. He’s a lot taller than me, but then most people are. “I want to run, too, believe me, I do, but we have to be smarter than them. They want us to run, so we can’t run.”

“But we may never get a chance like this again, Piper.” Gripping my arms tighter, he bends his head so we’re on the same level. “Come with me. We can take them on together. We can do this.”