Keeley shrunk back, wishing more than anything that she hadn't come to school today. She didn't know how to answer. Was this a rhetorical question?
She absolutely planned to run away from Aaron but didn't want to know what he would do to her if she admitted it.
The moment she opened her mouth to make something up, his phone rang.
"What?" Aaron barked into the speaker, still looming over her. "I got held up at school. I'll be there soon enough. You're paying him, aren't you? You can afford for him to wait for me. Bye."
He snapped the phone shut viciously and a frightening expression crossed his face. "I'm late. Be prepared to compensate me tomorrow."
She nodded, grateful to be temporarily spared, but dreading what kind of compensation he had in mind.
Weak-kneed, she slumped against the locker after he stormed off with her heart racing. How had she attracted his monster's attention? Why wouldn't he let her go?
