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Under normal circumstances, the trip to Lucas’s mansion in Upstate New York should have taken over an hour Google Maps would tell you so, anyway The narroo-lane highound like an asphalt snake through a towering hall of pine and bare-branched oak Every time you passed another car you took your life into your own hands, risking oncoht curve in the road

Whenever I drove fro darkness of the trees made me nervous The dark can hide so er on the tree line because ination could formulate any number of potential attacks from within

I never expected the road itself would be the thing I should fear

The first bloas so sudden I thought I’d run soaze darted to the rearview ht have killed, the previously unseen car behind hts flashed inht swaain This ti into the onco lane, which remained empty by some miracle

Kellen let out a startled shriek and held on toaway the blind spots, and swung the car into the proper lane, overshooting by a hair and sending a wave of gravel arcing backwards when I hit the shoulder

I jerked the wheel back froe of the road and ja the car into a sudden spin andmy tires screa blacktop When the car ca off the ceht with a black Corolla Possibly the least distinctive car i ait--just a quick shift of aze since I didn’t want to takevauely excited expression Kellen, on the other hand, was threatening to break rip

"What do they want?" she asked, her voice high and treed off her hand, trying not to be cruel about it My future sister-in-laas terrified, andto help anyone

"I don’t know," I replied honestly "Do you want et out and ask?"

Okay, so maybe it wasn’t a nice response, but in perilous situations I have a bad habit of overindulging in sass, so all things considered it was politer than I would have been normally

Kellen didn’t see scared out of her mind "No," she said "No, please don’t"

The Corolla revved its engine My stupid brain was reminded of the scene in Footloose where the two boys decide to play chicken using tractors It was all I could picture as the black car edged forward

"Ladies," I whispered, shifting the car into reverse and letting up on the brake a fraction of an inch "Hold the fuck on"

I did ht into the floor, and the car responded by growling and shooting backwards at a breakneck speed The Corolla was left in our dust as I sped around a curve, but our reprieve was short-lived when the fahts slid past the bend like a luht as lightning, and then h the interior, past all three of us, and out the rearI expected the safety glass to crack and shatter into a million tiny squares, but instead it see a puckered hole in both s and trailing spider-web cracks around the entry and exit points

Kellen screaer needed breath to live, let out a gasp and braced her hand against the dash

I rolled down my , and a howl of cool April air blasted the interior of the car as we continued our frenzied pace along the highith only the diuide us I could see in the dark, but with headlights shining inbackwards at al fate on a scary level

"Bri, love box"

She didn’t need to be told twice The glove box was open and the gun loaded and inpalm before I had a chance to say please

"I need your foot" This tiaze off the road to look at her because I wasn’t sure she’d understand what I was asking for She was shaking her head es fro about?" Kellen piped in, her voice barely above a whisper

"Don’t worry," I told the"