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Sie door was open enough
Bullets plowed into the windshield One Two
Dee shot right back The bullet hit the guy high in the shoulder Not a flesh wound, a deep thud of bullet into muscle and bone And so doent one jerk in black The other dove for cover
“Fuck! Behind us!”
She spun around Two e Guns up Since when did varowled and the car flew backward even faster
Because he was aiht for theto the overgrown side of the road before the Mustang ra snarled forward, horses pounding away
Dee stared back at thetheir beaten butts up off the ground
And the way Si the one hundred on the long, empty stretch of road
Dee took a deep breath The first she’d had since she’d risen from her cover in his den Her shoulder burned like a bitch Carefully, she unlocked her white knuckled grip and clicked on the gun’s safety before she put in on the floor-board
Wincing, she touched the wound Okay A lot of blood, but the bullet hadn’t gone in the shoulder, just grazed her No big da
Dee eyed Sirowled
Dee reached for him “Simon?”
His head jerked toward her “Back off” His teeth snapped together
What? Her hand hovered in the air between them
He shook his head even as his knuckles whitened around the wheel “Don’t touch ers fisted, then fell “I-I didn’t think someone would come after me” Not so quickly But, hell, she should have known Someone could have easily followed her and Simon from that death pit
And that someone had wrecked his house Nearly killed hiuy’s face No wonder he was growling at her She’d just brought her usual death and danger into the guy’s life
“You didn’t ask for this,” she said, even as she glanced back tofollowed This ti unconscious had really slowed down her game before “I-I’ll contact Zane at the first safe stop Get him to come for me and—”
“The hell you will” Guttural, but without the dark fury of before
“Da to you?” He had to see it “Those bastards were after me, Simon, they wanted—”
“Fuck what they wanted” He spared her a burning glance “I’ht”
What?
He shifted in his seat, flinching a bit “And those weren’t vaht? And use guns on prey?”
Hardly ever Vaht That was just soht when he’d said that vaht They were just weaker in the hours of light—huured Brauns…why shoot your prey? For vaood blood Dee sed “Why would vamps send humans after me?”
“After us”