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until then.
    It was about
another ten minutes before we got sight of the road. We pushed our way through
and made it out there. In the bare orange glow that encompassed this road in
the middle of nowhere. I went to continue out to it, but Aiden held me back.
    “The trucks
could be back soon,” he said. “We don’t want them to see us.”
    “Well, what
are we going to do?”
    Aiden pulled
out his cell phone and flipped it open.
    “Where did
you get that?” I hissed.
    “I’m calling
my friend,” Aiden said. “He’ll come and get us. Then we’ll find somewhere safe
you can be dropped off.”
    “Huh? What
about you?”
    “I have to
sort this out. I have to … do what I can for the family. It’s going to be
dangerous. I probably won’t come back from it.”
    “I’m staying
with you.”
    “What? No,
you can’t –”
    “Please
Aiden,” I said grabbing his hand. “You have to trust me too.”
    He looked at
me, pain in his eyes.
    “I’m making
the call,” he said.

 
    CHAPTER
FOURTEEN
     
     
    Aiden was right to hide where we
were. Less than a few minutes after he’d made the call, both trucks pulled out
of the darkness and veered off to the road. I squinted from our hiding place,
trying to make out if I could see any sign of my family around them, but alas
there was none.
    “Maybe it’s
safe to go back now,” I suggested. “To see how everyone is. To get them help if
they need it.”
    Aiden pushed
his hand through the roof of his head. “I doubt very much there won’t be
someone waiting for us there.”
    “How would
you know that?” I asked.
    “I know these
people,” he replied.
    I supposed he
did. But still I was reluctant.
    Leaving them
there… It was tearing me up inside…
    Headlights on
the road. Aiden grabbed my arm and pulled me to my feet.
    “That’s
Jared,” he said.
    Jared, his
previously unnamed friend, was a skinny fellow with curly black hair and
glasses. We both got into the back of his car from the road and headed in the
direction opposite to where the trucks went.
    “Hey,” Jared
said, looking back to us as he pulled away. “You must be Aiden’s sister.”
    “Stepsister,”
I quickly corrected. “I’m … not the one who got married today.”
    “I know,”
Jared replied. “You’re Bianca, right?”
    “Right…”
    “So what’s
been happening with you guys?”
    Aiden went on
to explain the situation as best he could Jared. It seemed the pair knew each
other very well, and Jared was also familiar with the soldiers who had captured
Aiden. I wondered where Jared fitted into it all.
    “So where do
you want me to drop you?” Jared asked. “You obviously can’t go back to my
place. They’ll be looking for you there.”
    “I want to go
to Fort Pacific,” Aiden said.
    “Are you
crazy?” Jared snapped back. “They’ll just hand you over –”
    “All my
shit’s still there,” Aiden said. “My weapons. My maps. My contacts.
Everything.”
    “We already
talked about this. You said you were leaving all that behind.”
    “This is
different,” Aiden said. “Either they’ve killed everyone or taken them hostage.
I can’t run from this anymore.”
    “You’re not
thinking about contacting those fucking ‘people’ are you? When you say
contacts, do you mean –”
    “Yes, that’s
who I mean.”
    “But you
remember what happened last time don’t you? You remember how they –”
    “It’s the
only way, man!” Aiden shouted. “The only way out of this.”
    “Okay…” Jared
trailed off.
    “What is all
that about?” I asked turning to Aiden. “What people? Where are we going?”
    “We’re going
to get help,” Aiden replied. “The only way I know how.”

 
    CHAPTER
FIFTEEN
     
     
    Half an hour later we were parked on
the corner of a dark road facing towards a fenced off facility known as ‘Fort
Pacific’. Aiden told me to wait in the car, but I wasn’t having any of it. I
needed to be with him every step of the way.
    “I’m not