Unleash The Island

Chapter 27

Imani immediately ducked. Gavin stood up from the chair. Leo and EJ faced the bedroom door. Initially, they thought they were hallucinating.

Then, there was another knock.

"No," EJ said. "No..."

"What?" Gavin asked. "It couldn't be him."

She faced Gavin. "No one ever knocks on the door, so who do you think it is?"

Whoever it was started to bang on the door. EJ felt a pit in her stomach.

"Holy shit," Imani whispered.

Leo nodded. "It's got to be Wayne."

Gavin tried to connect the pieces together. "How would he know we were here? He's never been here."

Leo glared at him. "Think, man." Leo could tell Gavin was not going to get it quickly. "Remember those tags he has?" Gavin's eyes went wide and they met Imani's. She was sitting on the floor with her hand on her heart. "He could've easily put one on her car."

The banging continued and kept going. It started off like a knuckle knock to pounding. There was no time to hesitate, or wait. If they stayed, the door would have a hole in it or one of them.

"What do we do?" Gavin asked EJ. "How do we get out of here?"

EJ had to stop being nervous for the group's sake. She pulled herself together. "I have a boat. It's anchored in the water."

"Okay, what kind of boat?" Gavin was stupid, but he knew about boats.

"I don't know, but it has a rope-start motor." EJ put her mind together. "We'd have to crank it until the engine starts."

Gavin grew confident. "If this is him, we need a distraction."

Leo stepped up. "I'll do it. I'll figure something out while you guys go to the boat."

EJ turned to him and shook her head. "Absolutely not."

"What else do we have, EJ?" He asked that with a hint of anger.

Imani spoke up as she stood from the floor. "We could record ourselves talking on one of our phones, place it in the room, then run for it."

Gavin shook his head immediately. "We don't have time for that."

The banging continued. The group stared at each other. Time was ticking. Imani was pacing, Gavin was trying to calm her down, and Leo wanted to swing at Wayne. EJ had to take action before anything got out of hand.

She handed her phone to Leo and started to unlock her bedroom door.

"No," he said, trying to shove her phone back into her hand. "I won't let you." EJ twisted her key into the hole. "You have too much at stake, EJ."

"I have a plan," she said as the lock unbolted.

"EJ-"

She faced the group. "On my signal, run to the back."

She opened the door and it was too late to stop her. The bangs from the front door were loud, which silenced her walk towards the front of the house. Leo shouldn't have chased after her, but he did. That led to Gavin and Imani following suit. Before EJ waved them back and pointed towards the back door, she threw the boat key from the hook to Gavin. Leo's eyes met hers and she had a stone cold face like she was indestructible. He pushed them towards the back door. EJ opened a closet door and shuffled through the folded towels.

Where is it, Dad?

She felt the magazine and grabbed it. It was his old pistol. Her dad instructed her to use it if something bad happened. He also gave her a whole rant about when he was in the Army and how much he loved her mother and EJ. He was on his deathbed when he told her all of that, but it was too late to go back. The banging continued and she was standing a couple feet away from the front door. The three of them stood by the back door, Gavin's eyes were wide open.