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"There were Circle agents in the room." I said quietly.

He glared at the street, his hands grasping the steering wheel tightly.

Cammie's POV

"Are you okay?" He choked out. The light turned green and his foot stomped on the pedal, and I could hear cars honking around us.

"Yea. The cleaning lady might have a heart attack, though." I joked. His lips didn't even twitch.

"I can't believe I was so stupid." He ranted. "You were gone for like, what? Twenty-five minutes? I thought you just went to the bathroom or something, but.. UGH I can not believe this."

"Believe what?"

"I can't believe that I wasn't there to protect you! Now you've got bruises around your neck and cuts everywhere, and I just..don't like seeing you in pain." His eyebrows were scrunched up, and his knuckles were white. I couldn't help but smile. Even though every part of my body ached, I just wanted to jump up and down and squeal.

"I don't need protecting, Zach. I'm a big girl. You've got to remember that I'm a spy too." I reasoned.

"It's instinct to protect someone you love." Zach said, his eyes unfocused. He said it as if he were reciting it from somewhere-a memory, maybe. The car was quiet for the rest of the time.

After an hour, we reached a sign that said, "Welcome to Laguna Niguel."

"We're here!" I announced. During the trip here, I went through the bag of stuff I stole from the Circle agents, and I found a picture of me, a picture of Zach, some of our clothes, a couple napotine patches, a gun, the device used to communicate with Bex, and three cell phones. I looked through the phones, but none of them had contacts or anything. I set the device in my lap as Zach parked the car in the parking lot for a beach.

Bex? Are you there? I tapped out.

I waited a couple minutes, and still no answer. Zach looked at me sympathetically.
"We'll get them back." He said. I sighed and got out of the car.

"So how do you think we should start looking?" I asked.

"Hmm. Grant always said that if he got captured and he knew he wouldn't make it through the fight, he would stay conscious long enough to make a trail somehow." Zach stated.

I blinked, absorbing the new information.

"Hm. Okay..so let's look for the trail."

We walked around aimlessly for one and a half hours. We had wandered away from the beach and we were in a park with a lot of trees surrounding it, with a jogging trail.

"This is going nowhere." I huffed, throwing myself onto a bench. He sat down on the bench and pulled me into his lap. He was sitting with his back against the backrest and I was sitting side-ways, so that my feet were on the other side of his lap. I wrapped my arms around his neck and sighed, nuzzling my face into his shirt. He wrapped his arms around me, and I shivered, his warm skin heating up my cold body.

"We need to find them." I mumbled.

"I know. We'll get them back." He reassured.

"I'm just scared that we'll be too late," I said, looking up at him. He pressed his palm against my cheek and brushed some hair away with his other hand.

"Me too." He admitted. Suddenly his eyes flashed in recognition and he quickly but gently set me onto the bench. He walked over to a tree and stroked its trunk.

"Cammie." He turned back to me and smirked. "I think we found our trail."

I grinned, surprised and hopped off of the bench and walked over to the tree.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"See this slash in the tree? It's too straight and deep to just be another one of the tree winkles in the trunk." Zach pointed. I stepped closer and stared at the slash tentatively. He was right. Then Zach pointed to a bush.

"And see that bush? It's all flattened out, and some of its leaves and flowers are smushed to the ground. Like someone was dragged away over it." Again, he was right.

"So this much be where they were captured!" I exclaimed. He smirked.

"Nice of you to catch on, Gallagher Girl." I rolled my eyes and took his hand.

"Let's go." We walked into the woods, following the barely-there trail. The 'trail' we were following were smushed bushes, misplaced dirt, flipped rocks, anything out of the ordinary like that. Finally, we stopped at an opening at the forest. It was a hiking trail that led up a mountain-type of thing.

"Where would they have gone from here?" Zach ran a hand through his hair. I looked down. There was a piece of rubber laying in the middle of the trail. I walked over and picked it up.

"Zach! I think this is a piece of their tire. There aren't supposed to be cars on this trail, but they wouldn't have dragged Bex and Grant the whole way, right?"

"Hmm." He took the piece of rubber from me. "Nice job, Gallagher Girl. And I thought I was the better one on this mission." He teased.

"You wish!" I stuck my tongue out at him. We walked up the hiking trail, pretending to be a strolling couple, holding hands and teasing each other. But we could see through each others' covers. I saw Zach's eyes flick back and forth every time there was a strange noise, and I felt his hand tighten on mine when someone jogged past. We walked all the way up the trail until we reached the top of the hill. I still wasn't sure if it was an extremely large hill or a small mountain.

We saw a lot of cabins, and a tiny little booth where you could rent one to stay the night.

"Bex and Grant are probably in one of these cabins." Zach whispered.

I rolled my eyes. "Yea, I kinda figured."

I walked up to the booth and smiled at the lady. "Excuse me, ma'am. May I ask how many cabins there are in total?"

She looked at my strangely. "57, dear. Would you like to rent one?"

"Uhmm. Maybe later. My boyfriend and I are just going to look around for a bit." I bit my lip and turned back to Zach.

"There are fifty-seven. Do we really have to look through the windows of each cabin?" I exclaimed.

"Well what other choice do we have? Let's just get it over with."

And so we looked through every window of every cabin, the lady in the booth looking at us, a bewildered expression on her face. At the 37th cabin, every single window was blocked out by black paper.

"This one looks suspicious." I called back to Zach, who was still peering through the 36th cabin.

He jogged up and looked at the windows. He went through his pockets and pulled out a tiny little bug. He placed it on a window and then got out earphones-like the ones you attach to your iPod. He plugged it into the bug and gave one end to me. I stuck it in my ear, and suddenly I could hear everything that was happening inside. I heard a little fly buzzing around. A heavy man breathing.

We stayed like that, listening. From the sound of the breathing, there were at least ten different people in there. Suddenly, a whispy sound came up. Kind of like someone with thick, long hair lifting their head. Then a whisper.

"Grant." I almost screamed. It was Bex's voice. I grabbed Zach's arm the exact same time he made a move to grab mine. We looked at each other in pure shock and excitement, our eyes wide.

"We found them!" I whisper-shrieked. He nodded in agreement and made a motion that said, 'keep listening.'

I heard handcuffs being pulled at, and some grunts of frustration.

"I think all of the Circle members are sleeping. Let's go in now." Zach whispered. I nodded.

"On three. One," I counted.

"Two," He looked at me, his eyes telling me to be careful in there.

"Three." We said together. He opened the door, and we crept in. Bex looked up, and I saw her eyes brighten when she saw me. The boy next to her, who I assume is Grant, grinned when he saw Zach. Suddenly, a cold hunk of metal was being pressed against my temple. I closed my eyes in disbelief.

We were so close. We would've just gotten Grant and Bex out while they were sleeping, lock the doors so they couldn't get out, call for some backup, and imprison the Circle members who were in there. But we were being too naïve. There was no way they would leave two of their prisoners unguarded.

We were careless and stupid, and look where that's got us.

With a gun pressed to my head.