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She cast an alance at me "I liked it"

"I’m sure your family wouldn’t et you out I assuain"

One side of her mouth turned up "Yeah"

A familiar noise made my head whip around, and Addie froze in her tracks

A shuttle

I darted behind a tree, and Addie did the saun from ing sound as it hit the ground, and I let out a slow breath It wasn’t that far away Not lanced at Addie to see her face tight with fear, her fingers wrapped around her gun I gestured for her to stay put and she nodded The ground was littered with leaves and crunchy brown grass If we ran now, they’d definitely hear us

Silence followed the shuttle landing, and I wondered if they’d gone in a totally different direction What were the odds they were searching for us anyway? It had been less than twenty-four hours since I’d killed those HARC guys

Footsteps dashedtoward us

Addie ot even closer, I peeked around the tree to see the corner of a black-clad shoulder Then another

I lifted un and nodded at Addie

I ducked out from behind the trunk just in tiht in our direction I lifted er

I paused

They’d come prepared for us They were in hel black shield in front of them

One of the officers darted forhen he spotted us, and I fired off two shots in his direction They bounced off his shield

I whirled around, grabbing Addie by the wrist We took off as the officers began to fire, and bullets bit atwrapped around s, but the wire circled tight around the into my skin

Addie skidded to a stop and reached for me, but a blast rocked the earth and I only saw the outline of her as she hit the ground

Sorasped his arm so loudly he yelled But there was another officer there, holding ed to squirers in the process Addie was a few feet away, throwing punches at a HARC officer, and I caught hiround

She leaped over hirabbedin the distance