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Suddenly the air was filled with a flurry of shouts and Spanish I looked over at her apart and saw a fewat us and flipping out

"Do it I shall," I said I opened the door (no point in locking it since half the ere shot out) and ushered Violetta into the backseat, where she could lie down, and then ju Jose forskills were still pretty sharp After crossing wires for a few seconds, Jose roared to life, his engine loud and proud, and I gunned hi out of the apartrumbled and spun the car around the corner Despite the circuain

I took Jose zoo in and out of traffic while trying to keep an eye on the roofs that whipped past us Dust flew up in our wake, coating us through the s and I narrowly lad Violetta was in the back and whi softly, it made it easier to concentrate when the only screaan to twist on itself when I realized I had no idea where Javier and Ca The houses in this barrio kept going on and on, family after fas like sweltering sardines

I’d almost clipped a bus in front ofon the roof, his head disappearing behind the occasional awning and the back of the bus It was one of the cartelsomeone, which had to mean that Camden and Javier were up ahead

I exhaled briefly with hope, before pushing the pedal to the floor and going up the shoulder, trying to get ahead of the bus There was a stack of bicycles up ahead and I was either going to hit them, the bus, or the people on the dirt sidewalk

I chose the bicycles I gunned the car harder, the rear wheels spinning furiously and braced for impact

"Hold on!" I yelled to Violetta and then screamed as Jose plowed into the the windshield in the corner, before clattering across the roof "Sorry!"

Then I whipped the car in front of the bus to a round of angry honks from the driver and finally saw Ca for their lives I grinned to myself, despite the severity of the situation, and let out a relieved laugh Somewhere in the back of my masochistic head, I had been so certain that Camden would be done for I hadn’t wanted to think about it but I was sure that Javier would have ditched hi the way Or killed him

"I see them," I told Violetta

"Camden’s still alive?" she asked weakly

I wasn’t the only with that idea

"So far," I told her

"I can tell my brother wants to kill hiether,the wheel harder "He hasn’t yet" I shot her a look over et their attention and pull up ahead"

I drove a bit faster, trying to keep up in the traffic that was growing increasingly heavier, and was about to start honking my horn like crazy when I saw the unthinkable happen

Javier and Caap not too wide, but when Cah part of the roofing and he went down, sinking in until I could only see hi the car so I could watch, the bus behind ain

Theat them, closer now

Ca duck

And Javier … Javier stopped

He stopped and raised his gun and tried to fire off a few rounds at the man but I could see from the frustration in his face that he was out of aun back into his pants and then crouched down to help Ca to sit up "Why are we slowing?"

"Javier is helping Camden," I said absently I wasn’t sure what to rateful Cautiously grateful

"How noble of him," she said, her voice acidic

It didn’t ain and they were back to sprinting I took the car around a rickshaw and started honking the horn wildly I didn’t care if everyone in the barrio looked over at me I just wanted them to seeup to an intersection where the roofs would end and they’d have to coht and cars were started to slow in front of ht the GTO onto the dirt sidewalk to get past the traffic and kept laying on the horn, now to get Camden and Javier’s attention as much as the attention of the people I was about to run over Fortunately, everyone got out of the way and there wasn’t another group of bikes to sainst the buildings, Camden and Javier wouldn’t be able to see the car

I stuckfor Caain I hoped he could hear me above the noise of the city There wasn’t ot off the block of roofs and started running, there was a chance I could never find theht was still red e came to it and I wasted no ti traffic and kept another screa as they ca outside of s

And I slammed Jose into park and climbed out of theonto the roof of the car I stood up unsteadily, mindful that I was precariously perched in the middle of a rush of cars in all directions, soerously close to me, and looked to the roof

In seconds, Javier and Caure out a way down, before the coht their eye I waved my arms over my head until they both spotted me

"Get the fuck down here!" I yelled

Ca his glasses any that sat above a convenience store They ran over until they were above it, Javier glancing nervously over his shoulder, then with one fluid leap they ju

It crashed and collapsed under their weight and brought them down over crates of fruit, but they were up quickly and running across the road to the car, all while the store oas e his head off