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EVERYONE IN THE SUV except Vida turned and looked back as the cop car that was following them screamed past on the perpendicular street behind the around

“They saw us! How about now? Can we go now?” Jorge wanted to know

Vida shook her head

“Out,fire”

“Suppressing fire?!” Jorge yelled

Vida placed herman’s temple

“That row some hair on that chest Get the fuck out of this truck!”

In the falling dusk, in the middle of the busy city street, the cartel hit team poured out of the vehicle and immediately opened fire on the ap

proaching Crown Victoria Against the iron-and-concrete tunnel of the overpass, the sudden rattling blast of the half-dozen fully auto The onco sideways and halted in the , its windshield torn to shreds

Still the cartel soldiers fired, without letup Their shooting stance was textbook, rifle stocks tucked high in the shoulder as they smoothly squeezed off round after round after round

Despite the war thundering around her, Vida’s eyes ide open as she put the SUV into drive

Seconds later, the Triuons’ Audi A4 appeared in the cross street in front of her, from the east It was headed directly toward the on-ramp on her left, like she’d predicted She stomped the accelerator into the floor

She timed it perfectly The Cadillac Escalade plowed directly into the side of the s Audi in a horrible crunch ofsqueal of rubber, hit two other cars waiting at the light before it came to a stop

A citizens, Vida exited fro Escalade with the ons in the crulass She eave each man another short burst in the head just to be sure

She dropped the machine pistol and took out her phone People who had been waiting at the light abandoned their vehicles Between the pauses in the gunfire behind her, she could hear sirens approaching in the distance Then the phone was finally answered