“You brought a gun?”
“Of course I brought a gun. We came here to break in. Did you really think I was going to come unarmed?”
“I came unarmed!”
“Sucks to be you,” she said, grinning and firing at the glass. She spread the shots out, making cracks in the reinforced glass. I spun and kicked out the glass of the housing for the fire extinguisher and grinned when I saw they also had a fire axe. I got to work on punching through the glass, but security came around the corner just as I made it through.
“Stop!” the first man yelled, holding up his gun. He didn’t have his finger on the trigger, and based on the sweat running down his face and the slight shake of his hands, he had never fired his weapon at an actual person before. I quickly took in the two other guards and came to the same assessment.
“You ready?” I asked Blake, swinging the axe one more time and widening the hole for us.
“Tuck and roll,” she shouted as she ran for the window and broke through the last of the glass. I gave a little wave to the security guards and ran for the window, feeling a slice in my side as I followed Blake out the window. I tucked, I rolled, and then I hauled ass after Blake, running around to our SUV.
Blake was the first there, already getting in and starting the SUV by the time I got in. She pulled out of the parking lot before I even had my door closed.
“Do you still have the journal?”
“Of course, I do.”
“Good, stash it. We have company!”
I swiveled around and looked out the back window. We had three vehicles following us down the road. We couldn’t afford to have them behind us. Chances were they had already called in the police, so if we didn’t lose these guys fast, we were already facing a lot more trouble than we had planned.
“Knight, we have a tail.”
“Lose them.”
“What do you think we’re trying to do?” I asked.
Blake took a corner harder than I expected and I went flying into the window.
“You should hold on. This is what we call a car chase,” she smarted off.
“No shit.”
“Just thought you might need some clarification.”
She took another turn, heading out of the heart of the city and toward the outskirts of town.
“We need to ditch the SUV or the plates.”
“Sure,” she smirked. “I’ll just pull over and let you take care of that.”
“You have a gun,” I pointed out.
“There’s a whole arsenal in the back.”
“How do you know that?”
“Knight told me.”
“He didn’t tell me that,” I grumbled.
“Well, why don’t you call him and complain. It’s not like we’re in the middle of getting our asses hunted down or anything.”
She took another turn and weaved in and out of alleys and side streets, trying to lose the guys on our tail.
“I’m just saying, it would have been nice to have been informed.”
I climbed over the seat and headed for the back of the SUV, pulling up the floor covering. My eyes widened as I took in all the weapons they had stored in here. “Holy shit.” Bullets pinged off the back of the vehicle and I ducked, narrowly avoiding a bullet that was just a little too close to where my head had been. “They’re shooting at us!”
“Is that what that was?” Blake snapped. “I thought they were babies falling from the sky.”
I rolled my eyes and loaded my gun. “You know, you’re not the nicest person when you’re getting shot at.”
“I’ll make sure I work on that.”
The vehicle swung hard and I flew backwards, hitting the side of the SUV. “Hey! I’m trying to protect us back here.”
“Could have fooled me! I don’t hear any gunfire.”
“Maybe if you weren’t driving like a fucking lunatic,” I snapped, getting into position to fire. “There are no fucking windows to roll down back here.”
“There’s a small window in the corner that you can open,” Knight said in my ear.
More bullets pinged off the back of the SUV and glass shattered above me as I ducked. When the firing stopped, I sat up and looked at the gaping hole where the back window used to be.
“Nevermind,” I muttered, taking up my position. Firing off a few rounds, I was able to get them to back off enough that we weren’t at immediate risk of being gunned down, but we still needed something more. I dug around in the arsenal in the back, grinning when I came up with a grenade. “Get me closer to the car behind us,” I shouted.
I felt the SUV slow down and pulled the pin, grinning like an idiot as I lobbed the grenade through the blown-out windshield of the car. Blake gunned it, but not fast enough. The impact from the blast was stronger than I expected and I went flying sideways, my gun slipping from my fingers. I grabbed at it, my hand wrapping around the grip as the gun catapulted through the air toward the middle seat. It all happened in slow motion. My pointer finger slipped around the trigger, and as I tightened my grip on the gun, the trigger depressed and fired a round. My eyes widened and I shook my head in horror as I watched Blake’s body jerk forward slightly.
“Oh shit,” I said, still feeling like this was all moving in slow motion.
Blake gripped her shoulder, pulling her hand away to look at the blood stain on her hand.
“I’m hit,” she shouted. “Those fuckers!” She slammed her hand down on the wheel in anger, and that’s when I realized that she thought someone else shot her.
“Yeah,” I agreed. “Fuckers. They totally shot you.”
“Parker, do me a favor and kill them.”
“On it.”
She slowed, allowing the other vehicle to pull up behind us. The third one had disappeared somewhere along the line. When we were close enough, I opened fire on the car, taking out the windshield and then the driver. The car swerved
