Seeds Chapter 15 Page 27

him a nod while looking at him with an intensity that said “We’ve got this! Focus!”

Despite what they’d just been through this last leg was going to be the most dangerous and he flicks his head to one side to instruct the boy to follow him over the short wall. When he joins him on the other side they scurries towards the Jet Ski and Steve pulls the rain cover off to check that everything was still intact. There is no damage, no sabotage to prevent his escape, at least this one element of the day was going well. This was his one token to continue the play, his last dime in Vegas.

Slowly and quietly he removes the wooden wedges holding the wheels in place and releases the handbrake. Dylan looks at him confused as it begins to roll down