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“Shush. Just keep your head down.”
The steep angle of the hill changed slightly for the better, but the bushes were denser. We had to shove through branches or climb over them, and when that didn’t work, we went around them.
I wanted to scream, but screaming was pointless. And so was running.
“Tyler, this is fucked.”
“We can’t give up.”
“And we can’t outrun them with that fucking thing in your pocket.”
“I know. I’m working on a plan.” Tyler marched in front of me, bulldozing through the plants.
“Well do it faster.”
Giant dead palm leaves crunched beneath my booties, and he released a wiry branch that whipped back and hit my arm.
“Fuck!” I hissed.
Tyler spun to me. “Sorry.”
Shaking my head, I wiped blood off my arm. “This is stupid.”
My pulse pounded.
Peering over my shoulder, he searched the bushes behind me like he expected the killers to appear out of nowhere. He gripped my wrist. “We need to split up.”
“Fuck that. We’re in this together.” I snapped my arm from his grip.
He grabbed my arm again, his grip bruising. “Listen to me, Indy. This is my fight, not yours.”
“Bullshit. Those fuckers took everything from me.” My lungs burned with each breath. “They messed with the wrong fucking woman.”
“But we won’t stand a chance if we stay together. I’ll lead them away while you?—”
“Hey.” I jabbed his chest with my finger. “I said no. We’re not separating. Now do your cop thing and figure out a plan.”
The scar on my forehead pulsed with adrenaline, reminding me that I’d been in deadly situations before and lived.
“Why do you have to be so stubborn?” His pleading eyes shimmered in the moonlight as he squeezed my arm. “I can’t lose you over this.”
A knot wedged in my throat.
He clutched my hands, and his grip was solid and real, like he held my heart, too.
I swallowed. “You’re not losing me. We’re in this together, Officer Fancy Pants. And come hell or high water, we’ll fucking get through it. But hell is on our asses, so get snappy.”
I clicked my fingers in front of his beautiful face.
A spray of bullets thumped into the bushes behind us.
“Run!” He yanked me forward.
Sprinting ahead of him, I shoved through brushes and branches and climbed over rocks and shrubs. I pumped my arms, forcing my body to move faster. And I prayed that the bullets destroying the shrubs behind us didn’t find us.
The moon spilled a haunting glow over the hillside ahead of me, casting long shadows that were ghostly still. Every time I paused, Tyler pressed his hand into my back, urging me to push deeper into the wilderness.
Bullets sprayed in a wild arc behind us, and I had a rotten feeling they weren’t trying to kill us. They were herding us.
