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"Safe house I’hts froap in traffic He looked angry, and his hands tapped the wheel i under his breath, he slaht at the corner turned and his chance to drive away vanished He stared out the , then pulled the scrunchie from his dreadlocks and tossed it to the dash to sit with the three others Turning to her, he said, "I want to know soment for you that he’d never seen?"

Peri licked her lips, feeling lost in the back of his van "That I loved Jack," she said, not knowing if it would help or daents didn’t cry, even when they were lost, alone, and fighting their own people

Nonplussed, he turned to the front and put the van in drive, griping at the car that didn’t slohen he gunned it into the street Miserable, Peri propped herself up against the rocking van, hating how relieved she was that so to help her

"You treacherous bitch!" Howard yelled, and she eyed hi at her "You lied to ht it!"

"What?"

Peri’s eyes widened when she looked out the frontCop lights, red and blue, were co up the road Instinctto write

"I should have known!" Howard shouted, dreadlocks swinging "Silas warned me you were slippery as slihtyou, it’s not ht use the local police to drive them into a trap "I found your address in fifteenfor squirrels," she said cal slip Or maybe they just followed your sorry ass back here, Mr Janitor I saved you by getting you out See?" she said as the cop cars squealed past the van, lights still flashing "They aren’t following us They’re headed to your office"

Howard’s anger was replaced by stone-cold fear "I can’t go back"

Peri ht "It sucks, doesn’t it" They had to get off this road There were traffic lights every block, and they werezero tilow frolinted on his beads "They’ll have "

You catch on fast, Doctor "We have to ditch this van They’ll put an APB on it as soon as they see it’s not in the lot Mass transit is fifty-fifty as long as it’s aboveground Anything beloays has carip on the wheel tightened "They’ll be looking for it"

Peri sighed "Yep We need to ditch it Sorry"