Total pages in book: 115
Estimated words: 115964 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 580(@200wpm)___ 464(@250wpm)___ 387(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 115964 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 580(@200wpm)___ 464(@250wpm)___ 387(@300wpm)
“Raize!” Ash was yelling from the phone. “You’re fucking insane!”
I smothered a chuckle. That’d really piss her off.
Abram chuckled. “Your blonde’s still loca. I like that.”
I flipped him my middle finger, and I was shocked to hear my sister let out a small giggle. Looking over, she had her head pressed into Abram’s arm. She was holding the phone up as he had his gun pulled out, laying on his lap.
From the phone, I could hear Jake. “How’d he know your hair used to be blonde?”
“Shut up. One crisis at a time here. Did you not just see that Raize crawled out of their truck and crawled back in through the window?!” Ash’s voice was rising.
“Yeah.” Jake laughed. “That was awesome.”
Cavers snorted, but must’ve taken the phone. His voice was more clear, closer. “What do you want us to do, boss?”
“I’m going to ram him, see what he’ll do. If you see an exit, take it.”
“You serious?”
I got behind the green car, hit the turn signal, and said, “Yes.”
Then I hit the accelerator.
ASH
I did not like this. Not one bit.
Panic was rising up in me, clawing over my throat.
I’d just watched Raize go out of their truck and slide back inside, from the outside. Which meant he’d been on the outside of a moving vehicle. And we weren’t taking a Sunday drive here. Speeds were interstate speeds. That meant hella-freaking-fast!
It was insane.
Crazy! Abram was right.
I wanted to murder Raize myself.
And then we proceeded to watch as he hit the back of the green car.
A bump, then he fell back and I knew he was waiting.
My heart was trying to pump out of me. “Oh my gawd, Raize. I’m going to kill you.”
I couldn’t handle this.
The green car swerved, ran onto the shoulder, then over-corrected and went into the passing lane. All the while, Raize’s truck held back, waiting, being so controlled.
Once the green car was back on the highway, Raize was right behind it. Another bump, not as gentle as the first one. And again, he fell back to see the reaction.
He didn’t wait long.
A gunshot sounded from the green car, and after that, it was over for him.
Raize rammed the car sideways, herding it off the highway and into the ditch. He kept pushing it. More gunshots came out and Raize’s front window shattered.
Someone was screaming.
Probably me.
I could just make out the tops of Abram and Raize’s sister’s heads. They were crouched down, but Abram had a gun pointing over the dashboard, aimed out. I could see Raize directing him where to shoot, and I saw him say, “Now!”
A shot went out.
I couldn’t watch this.
No way.
My hands were over my face, my fingers spread wide.
Oh my gawd.
Oh my God!
The green car jerked to the side, then Raize backed off and let it ram to a stop at the bottom of the ditch. There were giant rocks on the side. The car scraped against them. Once the car stopped, Raize braked abruptly behind it, the truck half blocking the car from any onlookers, and he was out and running to check on the driver.
His gun was drawn, pointing.
Abram ran out from the other side. As Raize approached from the far side, Abram moved in from the south.
Cavers was cursing, wheeling our own truck over and we all piled out.
“Clear!” Raize yelled at the same time as Abram and both went into the car.
The door was yanked open.
Raize was checking on the guy, but as I started to stop and see what I could do, Cavers grabbed my elbow. He pulled me with him.
Jake was ahead of us.
Gus—GUS! Where was Gus? But he was right beside me. Then he was darting forward, barking by Jake’s heels.
That’s when I got what Jake and Cavers were doing. They were grabbing anything that was in Raize’s truck. His sister started screaming at the sight of both of them, but they ignored her, grabbing the bags and sprinting back to the truck.
Raize had pulled the guy out, laying him on the side of the road by now.
Abram was inside the car.
But then I was at the opened side door and Raize’s sister was staring at me, tears streaked over her face. She was trembling.
Two hands reached inside my chest, took hold of my heart, and began squishing it together.
I was almost crying for her.
She was muttering something in Spanish. I couldn’t make it out, but I edged closer and held up a hand. “I’m a friend of Raize’s. Abram’s, too.”
At Abram’s name, she quieted and looked at the car.
She blinked a few more times and straightened with each one. I knew what she was seeing. She was seeing her brother, but she was seeing Jake and Cavers running behind him and her brother not being alarmed by them. And he’d had us on speaker so she knew they were traveling with another vehicle.