Chapter 86

“I’ll get that,” she said when he looked at the phone with a frown.

He nodded, picking up her empty coffee cup and carrying it into the kitchen. He had only just turned on the water to rinse it out when he felt the spike in Mary’s pulse.

When she called him, he went without hesitation. She didn’t speak, simply held out the phone to him.

“Hello?”

“I…I don’t know how,” Marcus said in a rushed whisper. “But they’re here. Henry.”

Gideon froze. “What? Where? At the church?”

“Yes. They’re in the chapel. They have Jesse…and a girl, I think.”

“What girl?” Fuck.“How the hell did they get there? It’s still daylight.”

“I don’t know. I’ve never seen her before. And I didn’t really get a good look at her. I think they were hiding downstairs.”

Gideon’s mind raced. Henry had known. They had known Henry was alerted; they should have anticipated a move like this. Because now he had Jesse. And an innocent girl was likely going to get sacrificed.