Thanks! I’ll give you two, since I know you read this first one when I was drafting.
This is from the Goodbye Lullaby sequel!
He was back. Thomas could hardly believe that he was *here*.
The small family held each other close, drinking in each other’s company.
The abductor’s car started again, and suddenly Benji wriggled away enough to look over Thomas’s shoulder.
He scanned the lot with a hopeful look that quickly turned into a frown. “Where’s Alex?” He asked.
“What?” Leah asked, wiping the tears of relief from her cheeks.
The car started to move and Benji pushed against his parents, trying to get out of Leah’s arms. “No! Where’s Alex!”
“No!” Benji screeched as the car pulled away. “Yaya still has Alex!”
“Who’s Alex?” Leah asked again, wide eyed.
“Yaya snatched him too!” Benji screamed, straining against his mother’s hold. “Yaya’s gonna hurt him!”
“There’s another child in the car,” Leah realized. She turned to the Secret Service Agent. “There’s another child in the car!”
And here is an excerpt from my White Collar/Alex Rider crossover, where Alex learns his mother had a half sister- Elizabeth Burke.
He didn’t look much like the school photo they’d been provided. Alex in that was a year younger, and looked like a happy, confident kid. The teenager in front of them looked guarded and world weary, and like the world had turned against him. And in the year since that photo was taken, it seemed like it had. His uncle and his guardian had died. And his guardian had died horribly.
“Well,” Elizabeth said, eager to bridge the awkwardness. “Let head home. The car’s not far.”
Alex nodded and followed without complaint. He brushed off attempts at conversation with tired, monosyllabic answers, so they walked in silence through baggage and to the car.
Elizabeth shared a worried look with Peter, who gave her hand a reassuring squeeze.
