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.“Okay.You can go instead.” He nodded toward Beanie Guy.“Go with her and watch her carefully.And as an incentive to get a move on, if you’re not back here in ninety minutes with all the coke, I’ll start cutting your boyfriend’s pretty face for each minute you’re late.Then I’ll kill him.”Oh fuck.Chapter Twenty-TwoSummer took careful note of where the lock-up garage was located.Tiverton Row in Peckham.Last unit on the right.There was no name over the door but she could tell the police where it was—if she had a phone.Why hadn’t she thought to keep it with her? They’d already searched her and didn’t think she had a phone.But then, she wanted the police to find Jai first.Could she get the guy to stop so she could use the loo in a Starbucks? Borrow someone’s phone while she was in the restroom? Actually, that wasn’t a bad idea.She refused to let herself think about them hurting Jai.The police would be there before long, surely? He dad had told her that even out in some remote place, the GPS chip would mean her phone could be located quite quickly.But what if the police weren’t quick? What if she’d left Jai to die?She began to wriggle on the seat of the car.“What the fuck is it?” the beanie guy snapped.“I’m desperate for a pee.”“Forget it.”“I can’t.I was desperate before you kidnapped me.I’m going to wet myself if you don’t let me go.I’m not going to run.I won’t risk anything happening to my boyfriend.Oh god.” She jiggled her legs.She damn well did want to go now.“Look.There’s a Burger King.”“No.”She waited before she tried again.“I’m sorry but I’m going to wet the seat.”“Fuck.” He swerved off the road into a service station and pulled up near the air hose.“I’ll be right behind you, so don’t try anything.”She had no chance to.Only one restroom.No one else in there.She thought about scribbling a message on the mirror but there was nothing to write with.When she sat back in the car, she felt she’d achieved nothing apart from emptying her bladder and losing precious minutes.Once they reached Surrey Quays, she directed him to the road that ran down the back of the shopping center.It didn’t escape her notice that he deliberately slowed for the speed cameras.Okay to kill someone for being a clueless mule but heaven forbid you get caught driving too fast.“Next on the right,” she said.Lindy did live around here, which was how Summer had come up with her plan, though they weren’t going anywhere near her flat.“Park anywhere.She lives just down there.You can’t get any nearer in the car.” Well, he could if he took a different road, but she didn’t want him to know that.Once they were out of the vehicle, Summer made sure she walked on his left away from the water.“Could I speak to Jai?” she asked.“Please.Just to check he’s okay.”“No.”She stopped walking.“I’m not going any farther until you let me speak to him.”He glared at her a moment and then took his phone from his pocket.“She wants to speak to her boyfriend.”“Where are you?” she heard the leader ask.Her heart sank.The police weren’t there yet.“Surrey Quays, Greenland Dock.We’re nearly at the friend’s place.”“Tell her she has forty minutes before I start cutting him.Fifty minutes before he dies.”“Don’t,” Summer shouted.“What point is there in that? Just wait for us to get back.”“Forty minutes.”As he started to put the phone back in his pocket, she pretended to stumble and shoved him as hard as she could toward the water.“What the fuck?”She kicked at his knees and for a moment she didn’t think he’d fall, but with a look of fury on his face and his arms cartwheeling, he tumbled over the edge, the phone slipping from his grasp.There was a loud splash.“Help!” Summer screamed.“Help.”“You stupid bitch,” he yelled from the water.“You want him to die?”She kept screaming and spun in frantic circles before she ran toward a building.When she saw a teenager approaching on a skateboard, she sprinted up to him.“Please—I need a phone.It’s an emergency.”He handed one over.Her fingers shook as she tapped in DS Spencer’s number.Don’t get it wrong.“It’s Summer.Jai Winter’s being held in a lockup on Tiverton Row in Peckham.Last unit on the right.”“We’re nearly there.”“You have to hurry.They threatened to kill him.”“Where the hell are you?”“At Greenland Dock.I pushed the guy with me into the water.I’m supposed to be taking him to the…you-know-what.” Summer caught the wide-eyed gaze of the openmouthed teenager.“Where’s the man now?”“Hey, look out,” the boy said.Summer turned
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