By the time Andrea pulls herself from the hole, the street lights are illuminating the road outside the Aitkens’ villa. She casually flags a taxi and tells the driver where she wants to go. The driver pauses and gives her a skeptical look.
“Lady, do you really want to go to there?” he asks, “It’s really far and there’s not much theres besides trees and snakes.”
Andrea purses her lips together with rage. She knows that Gabrielle os terrified of snakes, and she can’t believe that Andrew would take her sister to such a place. The casual cruelty of it seems shocking. She takes a deep breath to calm herself and levels a serious gaze at the driver.
“I’ll give you three times the normal fare,” she says.
The driver says nothing, but he unlocks the doors and Andrea gets in.
At the tropical rai
