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Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m

A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on ...

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CHAPTER 42

Six o’clock in the morning and something feels different. Something feels off.

Sharp gravel cuts into Simone’s sternum. The grass is patchy, still uncomfortable. Lucy did indeed grab huge handfuls of it, strewing them to make a pillow. They’ve gone everywhere, are drying and becoming paler. Simone smiles at them. What a stupid thing to do. It can’t have been comfortable.

She reaches for the flip phone, but it isn’t where she left it. Her hand scrabbles around, panicking, until she sees it over by Lucy. Huh. Has Lucy taken it? Been on it?

Just as she starts to wonder, she realizes what woke her. It’s lights. Her whole body goes still. Wide, conical-shaped beams are moving this way and that. Whoever it is must be moving closer because now the tent illuminates with them, the brightest daytime blue. Then darkness again. Then light.

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