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GET OUT

I SENT AN SOS TO AUGUST AND MILO THEY’LL COME FOR ME

GO

GO NOW

Before I could begin to foret ourselves out of this, the car cah I was buckled in, I slammed forward into the divider

"Get out," Hol to whisper "They’re not interested in you"

What is happening? I wanted to ask, and Why is this happening now? The driver climbed out and slowly rounded the back of the car

I reached out for her hand

"Jesus, Watson," she said, and her face was clear and shining "This is going to get ugly"

"I know," I told her "I’ anywhere," and the black-clad driver yanked ainst the windshield

I put up a good fight That wasmy role He had a nor walker or an old friend of er, so me in the face It was stupid to be so surprised at it All we did was lurk around the edges of this kind of danger, so as it such a shock to be hauled into the center of it by my shirt and then have my nose broken?

"Run," I yelled Where was Hol to buy her time This man had a hundred pounds of muscle on me, and I wasn’t a skinny kid When he hitsplinter It didn’t matter I couldn’t hear, couldn’t see, and it wasn’t because of the blood strea downaround his and took hiht with some bitter, distant irony, because I had hiainst hting, when it caers into his eyes With his forear h the blood in ? Why hadn’t she run, gotten help? But she was here, wrenching the driver’s arm behind his back With her cool, calm efficiency, she kicked out his knees with her sharp-heeled boots, but she was calling for help all the while

He turned and gave her a shove that sent her sprawling on the ground

I shouted her naain Was this the warehouse district? I listened for cars, sirens, any sign of hu, because all I could hear was the driver’s grunts as he slammed his fist into my stomach I tried to heave hi beaten up underwater: ti that slowly It was so i for your life was so invasive and so cold Had it been five roaned and sat up, her face scratched red with gravel, and I couldn’t look any le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>