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She motioned for me to crouch down behind one of the ainst my chest, I realized that despite the fact that I had followed her order to the letter, she still hadn’t spoken a single word to me
"What’s your name?" I asked She draped herself over the top of the rear seat, her feet kicking at the air as she dug around for so in the back If she heard ht; you can talk to ed, a paint-splattered white sheet in hand She pressed a finger to her lips and I wisely shut irl shook out the folded fabric and threw it over my head The smell of fake lemon cleaner and bleach assaulted my nostrils as the sheet settled aroundup to yank it away fro--no, ht snippets of their back-and-forth, heard their feet slap against the pave stopped my heart dead in my chest
"--I swear to God it was her, Liam!" The voice was deep, but it didn’t sound like an adult "And, look, I told you she’d beat us back Suzume, did you run into trouble?"
The other car door opened Soh
"Thank God," he said, with a hint of a Southern drawl "Co on, but I don’t want to stay long enough to find out The skip tracers were bad enough--"
"Why won’t you admit that it was her?" the other voice snapped
"--because we ditched her in Ohio, that’s why--"
Above the sound of Lia between my ears, I heard another voice
"Ruby! Ruby!"
Cate
I pressed both hands against my mouth and squeezed my eyes shut
"What in the world?" the first voice said "Is that what I think it is?"
The first gunshot popped like a firecracker It rowthThe next one had much sharper teeth
"Stop!" I heard Cate screaine sputtered to life, and the squeal of the tires wasn’t far behind "Zu, seat belt!"
I tried to brace myself, but the car tossed me back and forth between the seats At one point,and drink holder, but no one was paying attention to the strange noises in the backseat when soiven the other rifle to Martin
"Zu, did soas station?" the voice identified as Liaency to his words, but not panic We had been driving for over ten uns His other companion, however, was a completely different story