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Highway to Hell
CHAPTER 102
IT TOOK THEM TWENTYwith the double-wide trailer Looking down at it froe, Vida found the pale, low structure, sitting there all by itself in the center of the flattened hillside clearing, strangely iconic Like a temple Like a tomb
It’s a to down the pitch-black slope on the rocky, narrow trail behind Eduardo, Estefan, and Jorge The Bennett Tomb
It hen they neared the botto subtle and subliround huht Soe on her eardrum from the altitude?
When the sound came a moment later out of the dead silence, she fell i she’d literally been hit with so Then, frouitar chord repeated again, speeding faster as drums kicked in
Living easy, living free, season ticket on a one-way ride, shrieked a rough, joyously unhinged voice
Rockto think She scanned around Were there speakers in the trees? In the ground?
The first “Highway to Hell” refrain had just started when the lights ca from the trees beside the trailer suddenly bathed the entire slope they were standing on, cohts started to strobe It was like the whole desert hill had suddenly been moved to the middle of a dance-hall club What the hell was this?
She was flipping up the now-useless night-vision goggles when the gunfire erupted Estefan, in a crouch at the front of the line, suddenly dropped forward and slid down the trail face-first Eduardo, behind hi after him
“Back! Back!” Vida screae behind her
She could feel heavy slugs slam into the dirt at her heels and off the rocks beside where she’d just been standing as she retreated back up the hill As gunfire popped up dust on the trail, she looked around for muzzle flashes to return fire at, but she couldn’t hts
She dove over so, her heart tre The hard-rock ht She kneas just a tactic, but it put a chill through her just the saainst!
She cursed herself as she crawled through dirt toward the grass berotten sloppy, and two of her best soldiers had paid for it with their lives It was just her now, and Jorge, the young up-and-coreat
She had to think The trailer sitting there in thewith only one way down to it had obviously been a decoy, some kind of trap There would be others