“You okay?”
“Yeah, it’s just a graze.”
I pulled off my shirt and wrapped it around her wound, tying it tight. She grimaced slightly, but seemed to be handling it well. I felt bad, but if she didn’t know, I wasn’t about to inform her that it was me that had shot her.
“We need to get the plates off the SUV and get back to Reed Security.”
“Pull over and I’ll get them.”
She did as I asked and I quickly took off the plates, then got back in. For now, no one else was on our tail and I wanted to keep it that way. We just had to get back to Reed Security and then we’d be out of hot water for the time being.
“That was some nice shooting back there.”
“Yeah, you too,” I grinned.
“What? At the window?”
“Yeah, it was good thinking.”
“Well, you weren’t too bad with that axe.”
“I always wanted to be a lumberjack,” I said jokingly.
“How long do you think we have before they come for us?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know. I’m sure they’ve found out already that the SUV is registered to Reed Security. If we get there and hide out, Cap could always say that his vehicle was stolen. We could lay low in the panic room until we figure this shit out.”
“Doing what?”
“I could think of a few things,” I said suggestively.
“Right, because hanging around and having sex is always the answer when your life is on the line.”
“Hey, I didn’t say anything about sex. Get your mind out of the gutter.”
“Really? So, you weren’t thinking of shoving your hard cock in my soaking wet pussy?”
“I have to be honest with you, I’m always thinking about that lately.”
“You just-”
The SUV spun as a car slammed into the front end of the car on the passenger side, sending us flying toward the ditch. We hit the gravel and the tires lost traction, sending us down into a field. Blake just barely got control of the SUV before it would have flipped.
“Get us out of here,” I shouted as she slammed on the gas and took off across the field. I climbed over the seat to the back and grabbed an M27 automatic rifle. I hadn’t used one of these since my military days and found myself grinning as I loaded the rifle. I prepared to fire, but no one was following us. I scanned the area, looking for threats, but no one was there.
“Do you see anyone?” Blake asked.
“No.”
The sound of a helicopter had me leaning out the back window to see better. Coming in hot were two helicopters, flying low and headed straight for us. I pulled out a pair of binoculars to get a better look.
“Shit! Get us out of here!” I shouted to Blake.
“Where are they?”
“Right the fuck-”
I was cut off by the sound of a loud explosion. Blake screamed and slammed on the brakes, sending me flying over the back seat and into the back of her seat. Then we were airborne and crashing hard. The SUV flipped, sending me flying around the backseat like a fucking ping pong ball. When we crashed to a stop, I flopped to the roof of the SUV and rolled to my back with a groan. We were upside down.
“Blake?”
“Yeah, I’m good. You?”
“Fucking peachy.”
“We have to get out of here,” she said, unlatching her seatbelt.
“No shit.”I sat up and crawled to the back to gather up any weapons I could. I slipped a few grenades into my pockets and grabbed a tactical vest that I saw lying in the back. A second was just a few feet away.
“Here,” I said, tossing the vest to Blake.
I grabbed some thigh holsters as Blake worked her way back to me. I could hear the helicopter in the distance setting down. We needed to move now.
“Grab what you can. We have to move now.”
She quickly grabbed supplies along with me and we geared up in record time. We crawled out the back window and into the crater that the helicopter had made when it shot a fucking RPG at us.
“Knight, can you hear me?”
I pressed my finger to my ear, but the earpiece was gone. I must have lost it while I was flying around the backseat.
“Any luck?”
“I lost my earpiece.” I felt my pockets for my phone, but came up empty. “Do you have your phone?”
“No, I lost it when we flipped.”
“You get out of here. I’ll go back and find it,” I said, turning back to the SUV.
“Are you crazy? Are you trying to get killed?”
“If we don’t have a phone, how the hell are we gonna call in for help?”
“We’ll be dead if we stick around here,” she argued. “In two minutes, those guys are coming down here and they’ll put a bullet in your head. Calling in for help isn’t going to do jack shit right now.”
“Fine,” I bit out. I hated that she was right.
She glanced over my shoulder and her eyes widened. “We need to find cover now.”
Blake started crawling up the crater. I followed, placing my hand on her ass to support her as she climbed.
“Do you mind?”
“I’m not feeling you up. I was trying to help.”
“Well, help from somewhere else,” she snapped.
“I don’t get women,” I grumbled as I started climbing next to her. “Grab my ass in the bedroom, but don’t think of grabbing my ass when you’re trying to help me. You make no fucking sense.”
She spun angrily when she got to the top of the crater, her eyes widening in horror. “Parker, you’re hurt.”
“Well, no shit. I just got tossed around the back of the SUV. What did you think was going to happen?”
“No, I mean, you’re seriously bleeding.”
I glanced down at my side, the same spot where I felt the slice as I jumped out the window. “Goddamnit!” I roared. “What the fuck is it with you and
