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CHAPTER 22

“SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!” VIDA cried as she watched the cops advance and the world end

When she turned back toward the loading dock, she watched as the Triu Audi The sports car squealed past the SUV, al it as it headed east

They were running Good idea, Vida thought Jorge wasn’t completely in the car when she slammed the SUV into drive and the accelerator into the floor

She almost collided head-on with the first cop car as she roared out of the lot, heading west In her rearview, she could see one of the unht bubbling It ht, because after aon them

I can’t have that, Vida thought, instantly taking a left in the middle of the house-lined block

The SUV lurched and alrassless lawn Its big, screeching wheels caught a driveway, and then the front air bags went off in two loud, white puffs as the grille sh a chain-link fence into a backyard

Wood crunched as they blurred through a play set and another wooden fence Then they swerved alongside another stucco shitbox, veered onto another driveway, and were bouncing over the curb onto the street opposite the first

Vida checked hercop car was nowhere, at least for the -block, four-hundred-horsepower engine howling, she hooked a right at the next corner, back toward the expressway

Less than half a minute later, they’d made it They turned another corner, and the on-raht there In a one

Instead of gunning it, though, Vida, biting her lip in concentration, pulled over on the shoulder under the expressway overpass beside the on-ramp and put the SUV into park

“What are you waiting for?” Jorge said, banging on the dashboard “Are you out of your o to jail We need to get the hell out of here Let’s go!”

Vida shook her head as she lifted her phone

“Calm down I won’t tell you twice,” she said “You let et this done”

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