He turned and faced them. “Shut up! Stop that screaming.”
Annalise pulled the girls closer to her and tried to shush them. Fear torched through her. The man was obviously volatile and unpredictable. Thankfully no return fire came from the outside.
“Stop calling that phone,” Jacob yelled out the window. “If you don’t stop, I’m going to start throwing out the bodies of dead little girls.”
An icy chill filled Annalise. Would he really follow through on the threat? It was obvious the phone had been ringing because somebody on the outside was trying to make contact. The ringing stopped.
“How are you going to get out of here if you don’t talk to anyone from the outside?” Annalise asked in frustration. “And why are you here? What do you want?”
“Nobody is talking to you, so you need to shut up and mind your own business,” Jacob growled at her. “Besides, the longer they get nervous out there, the more apt they are to bargain with me.”
“You know no money is kept here and most of the students come from impoverished families.” There was no way the students could be exchanged for a large sum of money.
“Don’t you worry about what I know,” Jacob retorted.
“I’m speaking to the people in the school building. I’m Special Agent Evan Duran with the Tactical Crimes Division of the FBI,” a deep voice said from a bullhorn outside.
Annalise’s heart seemed to stop beating for a wild moment. Evan…? Evan was here? Suddenly her head was filled with sweeping memories…memories of passion and laughter, of love and of loss.
There had been a time when he’d been the love of her life—her end game, she thought. He now held her life in his hands. She just hoped he took better care of it than she had with his heart.
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