Chapter 30 The Deceit Web

• Samantha's POV
• On my phone, the message might as well have been a bullet. You should not trust her. As the words blazed into my consciousness, my fingers tightened around the phone. Who forwarded this? And why today? Suddenly the air around me felt thick and stifling. Though I could just hear the faint sound of the city behind us, my whole attention was on those three words.
• "Sam, what is it? " Alex's voice caught me out of concentration; his forehead wrinkled in worry.