he subway station as usual. She had to take three connecting trai

er and brother passed away in a mugging gone wrong when she was younger-but Keeley

with him every twenty minutes since it t

by the arm, hauling her into a w

ts here but if someone just went by th

!" Keeley shou

s ten. Her karate skills were extremely rusty but

e it in here?" a cold, sl

yebrow raised as if she was stupi

doing? I hav

I heard earlier, the subway sounds terribl

s hackles. Millions of New Yorkers used the subway eve

ary," she sniffe

aron said loftily,

and Keeley jolted forward and pr

was no way she could leap out into oncoming traffic while they d

you doi

here near the Upper East Side. There was absolutely no point in going that far o

to explain m

thought it was part of his charm. He was so aloof from everyth

aron at all. He was meant to be taken at face value. He look

to escape. Unfortunately it didn't come. She realized that t

ought to call the cop

e past she would have been moved by it but

hey would b

d to go to the police with her suspicions about him and Lacy colludi

ng him. She would give him a fake address in Bro

were perfectly normal to abduct a classmate and see them home. What teenager in thei

for the majority of the ride. There wasn't really a point if

y crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. Even with tra

she saw a random apartment buil

dgingly. "But don't do this again, it's

ntly. "We are desk mates af

ut they gave Keeley a sense of foreboding. What exa

home though the winter wind bit at

ed the front door of the apartment she shared with her father and sighed with

later as she was stirring a bubbling pot

alls?" he asked hopefully as he dr

laugh. Homemade meatballs using her mother's r

lax. Today was an anomaly. Aaron would lose interest in her so

home after school. Then all she would have to do is ign