Chapter 9: Everything He Never Said

I woke up tied to a chair in a warehouse with the taste of chemicals in my mouth and rain coming through a hole in the roof. Marcus was pacing. He'd been drinking. His hands wouldn't stay still. "He's going to kill you," I said. "He doesn't know where you are—" "He knows." My voice was hoarse but it was steady, and I watched that steadiness terrify him more than screaming would have. "You have no idea what you've done, Marcus. You took the one thing on this earth that man is insane about." He...