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was shaking, and Elijah was just staring at the empty doorway.
    “Sorry,” Paris said, her lips contorted into an apologetic grimace. “He gets pretty paranoid sometimes.”
    “Great,” Elijah said. “Just great.”
    ***
    After the cell phone incident, Elijah and Caelyn went back to their room. Trey had disappeared and Paris had told them she was going to have a bath.
    The moment the door was closed, Caelyn turned to Elijah. “We have to go, right?”
    Elijah ran a hand through his hair. “Yeah, we do. But the problem is that we have almost no cash and there’s a good chance the police are looking for us.”
    “You think Trey was telling the truth about the GPS in my cell phone?”
    He nodded and rubbed his eyes. “Yeah. That was stupid of me not to think of it.”
    “So the police could be on their way here now,” Caelyn said. “We have to go.”
    “I don’t think they would have had a chance to try and locate your phone yet,” he said. “I mean, it’s possible but I doubt it. They’d have had to do a lot in a short amount of time.”
    “We can’t take the chance.”
    “Where are we going to go?” Elijah asked her.
    She stood there, biting her fingernail, her mind a blank. “I don’t know. But you’ll think of something.”
    “Caelyn,” Elijah said, looking serious. “I’m out of ideas. This place is my best idea.”
    “Well, it wasn’t a very good one.”
    “No, it wasn’t. But unless the police were trying to trace your phone within the last few hours, we’re fine here. We’re safe.”
    “I don’t feel safe. And I don’t like either of them.”
    “Keep your voice down.”
    She shook her head. “This is crazy. What are we doing?”
    “Listen to me,” he said, grabbing her shoulders and staring into her eyes. “If we can hang here for a few days, just a few days—“
    “No, please—“
    “Just a few days, until things blow over. Then I’ll see if Trey can lend me a hundred bucks or something, just enough so we can get to Maine or Vermont, maybe even Canada.”
    “Ask him now, and we’ll leave right away and drive until we get there,” Caelyn said.
    Elijah sighed. “How much is he going to want to help us after the way I just threatened to knock his teeth out?”
    “How much is he going to want to have us stay a few days after you threatened to knock his teeth out?”
    Elijah stared at her, his eyes searching. “Okay. I’ll tell him we’re leaving.”
    Just then, there was a low knock on the door. “Hey, it’s Trey,” came the muffled voice.
    “Come on in,” Elijah said, moving a step away from Caelyn.
    The door opened and Trey came into the room, his head hanging, eyes downcast.
    “Hey, man. I just wanted to say how sorry I am for the way I acted before. I never should have taken your girl’s phone like that. That was totally not cool.”
    Elijah sighed. “It’s okay. And I didn’t mean the thing I said either.”
    Trey looked up at him, a half-smile forming on his face. “I need some dental work, anyhow,” he said. “You could’ve saved me a few bucks if you just knocked them all out for me.”
    Elijah laughed, shaking his head. “You’re nuts, you know?”
    Trey stroked his beard, his gaze darting from Elijah to Caelyn and back again.
    “Listen, I hope I haven’t totally offended you guys. I’m really happy to have you both here, and so is Paris. I don’t want to make you uncomfortable. I hope you’ll give me another chance, and stick around.”
    Elijah scratched his jaw. “Yeah, the thing is—we were kind of thinking that with the GPS thing and all…we might have put you and Paris in danger. We were saying maybe it’s time to hit the road, just in case.”
    “Seriously?” Trey asked, surprised. “You’re leaving already?”
    “I don’t want you guys to get in trouble on my account,” Elijah told him.
    “It’s okay. You know I’d take a bullet for you,” Trey told him.
    “You don’t have to.”
    “And what about money? Do you