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“It’s a e Get on”

“Where?” She looked for the passenger capsule, but there wasn’t one

He looked down and shook his head “Sit behind ht” When he looked back up at her, it was fierce “Now”

The word acted like a whip It hit her hard,her rush into action She fastened the hel with her legs spread asn’t coe man between them made it worse

“Wrap your arms around me When I lean, you lean, too”

She did as she was told, although her face burned at the thought of being so close to hiet used to The man owned her now

“Tighter” It was an order

His ainst her chest She pressed her breasts flat against him, scooted forward until her hips were flush with his, and wrapped her ar to fistfuls of his shirt He smelled of citrus and sandalwood, a heady co stomach quake

The bike roared into life She gasped at the noise It sounded nothing like the low hum of the hover vehicles

“Don’t let go” With that last order, the bike shot forward, taking them into the balmy streets of Munroe

They headed out of town, toward the glowing lights of the thirty-foot-high wall that e of the Northern Territory and the start of the Red Zone

The world’s deadliest no-man’s-land

And Friday’s only hope of escape

Chapter Three

After three tries to re her now-defunct implants, Friday realized she’d have to turn on the audio oing to be hard Hopefully she’d have ht blinked in her visor to let her know she could now talk with Striker