Chapter 13
Lois’s heart beat wildly. This couldn’t be happening. Her skin was dewy from her own cold sweat and she shivered in the van.
When she dared a look at the driver and passengers who all spoke a guttural language she didn’t understand, more goosebumps grew.
Bus-man from Paris, so huge he was double the size of normal men, sat next to her in the dark interior as the black van zipped along the highway.
If she didn’t get control of the adrenaline in her veins, she’d go mad. She met the huge man’s brown eyes and asked, “What happened to Emily?”
He jutted out his jaw and focused on his phone like he needed to avoid her.
“Hey!”
He didn’t look at her but scoffed, “She was a child.”
In school, the only way she’d survived bullies was through talking. Her brother was the muscles, lik
