Chapter 37
Grace rode with Talia to the park, anxiety making her palms sweat and her head pound. They pulled into a train station parking lot.
“This is the wrong station,” she said. “You said South Street Station. This is Wall Street Station.”
“The next closest one. It will be safer for you to get out here. Come now, we must hurry.”
She followed him down the steps to the station below. A train sat waiting.
“Get on the train,” he said.
“What? No. Where is Matteo?”
Talia pulled a gun out of his jacket. “Get on the train if you ever want to see your baby again.”
She held her breath, suddenly shaking. “Please. Tell me where he is. I’ll give you anything you want.”
“I want you to get on that goddamn train!”
She turned and got on. Talia stood in the doorway, the weapon trained on her.
“Where is Nico?”
He ignored her.
“I’ll give you safe passage out of the country. Money. Anything.”
Talia laughed. “I don’t want anything from you.”
A loud boom resonated through the underground tunnel and she put a hand on either side of her seat, bracing herself against the vibrations. “What was that?”
“That, my dear, is my cue.” He stepped back and the door to the subway car closed.
She shot out of her seat and banged on the glass. “Wait! What’s going on? What’s happening?” She continued to bang on the glass as the car kept moving.
The train pulled out of the station, leaving Talia behind and Grace’s train car hurtling forward. She ran car by car to the engine. There had to be a conductor, someone who could let her off this thing, but when she reached the front car, she found it completely empty.
She was alone.
A light up ahead on the tracks, and she squinted to make it out. What was so bright? It almost looked like… daylight.
Her eyes widened as her mind made sense out of what she was seeing. The tunnel was open to the outdoors, the tracks blocked and obstructed.