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"I wouldn’t dare" Nick set yourself killed, Jess I mean it"

James stepped forward "Take care and watch your back, Jessica The Goddess will be hard to best" Wolves weren’t a sentimental bunch, but I could scent their combined concern "Use whatever means necessary to win this battle"

"I plan to," I said "You andto be any easier to subdue I hope Redman Martin cooperates and decides to join us, but if he doesn’t, I hope you beat him into submission quickly"

Tyler leaned overon failing We’re co back You still owe " My heart constricted and I had to stop for a second to catch my breath The last tiht before the barroom brahere we’d met for the first time I’d never heard Tyler use that nicknaave us a salute as we pulled out Nick stared ahead with a pensive gaze as he waved goodbye

Once ere out on the road everything went smoothly

Until Ray woke up

"Shut the bloody hell up!" Danny yelled for the fourth ti unconscious! I will sever your neck from your body if you continue to push ht and ere almost to the Canadian border We’d chosen to take the interstate most of the way and I’d driven fast

But it was more than time to exit off the main road

Clearly, I hadn’t considered the iry A to play nice and it was unlikely the Canadian Border Service officers would be amused if they found an unconscious body in the backseat Taking a few huuards doouldn’t be an issue, but the surveillance would put a damper on the events The border was heavilywheel in frustration, but not hard enough to break anything I was learning how to deal with s every five o, Ray had i He’d kicked the back of my seat repeatedly until Danny had threatened to saw off his legs with a hunting knife When Ray hadn’t acquiesced, Danny had brandished said knife in front of hi his nails with it Ray had stopped thrashing, but he hadn’t stopped yelling He was gagged, but it didn’tshort of knocking hi hi in a dull ache I’d clearly been out ofI could kidnap someone like Ray, even if it was only to save his sorry life

The Humvee had a state-of-the-art GPS hardwired into the front console I glanced at it and took a turn, following a s et out of this car and he dies, Jess," my brother murmured from the seat next to me "I have no idea why he’s here, but there’s no way his life is worth more than ours If he coed from the backseat "Goow danfast and hit the brakes, cranking the wheel hard to the right We shot through a small break in the trees The back end of the monster swerved in what see purchase in the dirt I straightened it out and gunned it through the brush, careening over an old, weed-covered road like ere on a motocross circuit All the crap in the back crashed around,apart at the searabbed on to the side handhold above his head "What the fuck are you doing? Did I ?"

There were no streetlights and it was pitch dark The truck bobbed over a sroup of pine trees I punctuatedus all flying forward in our seats Then I ja," I said, turning toward ets out of hand"

"I should’ve driven," Tyler muttered "Girls are emotional drivers"

"Emotional, huh?" I chuckled "Guess who finally shut up in the backseat? I did that" I tapped a finger againstsound outside and two shapes struck ground directly in front of the truck The high bea thehostly specters

"They don’t waste any tiled his body toward the front seat "Were they just hanging in the sky, then? Waiting around for us to stop and ask for directions?"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>