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‘Let’s get you back to Edinburgh,’ Maeve said, ushering the nurse in to unhook me from my IV and prep me for leaving.
The city gave way to rolling green as we hit the motorway. Benny sat upfront with one of Cam’s men, while Maeve and I sat in the back with another. I fiddled with my bracelet, running my fingers over the beads absentmindedly.
Nerves turned my stomach at the thought of being at Cam’s. Mum would be around, and I still didn’t know how we could all fit together. Could I forgive her? She’d lived through hell with my dad, and if she’d taken us when she left, he’d have traced her until he buried her six feet under.
More than anything, I wanted us to be happy. All of us. I wanted a new chapter full of happiness. I missed it, if I’d ever really had it. We’d never wanted for anything. Dad had never withheld material objects or money. He’d insisted we had the best of everything to show everyone else the vast wealth he had obtained. But our lives had been low on fun and frivolity. I thought it was about time we all had some.
Benny kept looking in the mirror for long periods of time, and eventually I glanced behind me. A car dodged between lanes whenever Benny moved.
‘Are we being followed?’ I asked, squinting at the black car behind us.
‘Nothing to worry about, Katie.’
I gripped the armrest as Benny sped up, evasively moving between traffic. The car maintained its pace behind us.
Then I saw him.
Tommy.
Fear clawed at my stomach.
‘It’s Tommy,’ I whispered as our bodyguard took out his gun, loading it.
‘Shit,’ Maeve said, pulling up her phone and texting Cam. ‘Can’t you shoot his tires out or something?’
Benny shook his head. ‘Not in the middle of the M9.’
The bodyguard in the front turned and glared out of the back window. ‘Pull off and into a back lane. We’ll take him out there. He’s alone.’
An awful crunch shook the car as it lurched forward. Tommy had rammed us. Maeve screamed while I screwed my eyes shut, the seatbelt aggravating my bruises as the hit made us swerve.
‘Quickly,’ the bodyguard said.
Minutes later, we were speeding through the lazy Scottish countryside with Tommy hot on our heels.
‘Kill him,’ I said, desperately gripping my bracelet. ‘You can’t let him get me.’
‘It’ll be okay,’ Maeve said, grabbing my hand.
The bodyguard opened the window and fired a shot at Tommy’s car. It hit a headlight, making it shatter. Each bang made my head ache.
Then a loud smack took my breath away as our car turned and flipped. Everything slowed as the car rolled, belongings flying amongst our combined screams. The bodyguard’s body crunched with a sickening noise where he was hanging out of the window, squashed between the car and the ground as we rolled.
The car came to a stop upright, its alarm beeping loudly as my head ached. My chest felt like it was on fire where the seatbelt had crushed against it, holding me in place.
A sob tore against my throat as I looked at Maeve, still secured next to me, but unconscious, blood dripping from a cut on her forehead. The mangled corpse of the bodyguard hung limply halfway out of the window while Benny was still in the front. A groan came from the other bodyguard in the front, and I heard him cock his gun.
I reached behind me and pulled my phone from my pocket, desperately dialling Mac’s number.
He answered almost instantly, his breathing laboured. ‘Katie, you okay sweetness?’
‘It’s Tommy, he’s found me,’ I panted, pain blooming in my chest.
‘What? Where?’
‘I don’t know. He ran us off the road. We’re hurt. Maeve and Benny too--‘ I screamed as a gunshot sent the side window shattering through the vehicle, the guy in the front’s head exploding with a red splatter that made me want to vomit.
‘Katie!’ Mac yelled at the other end of the receiver. ‘I’m coming.’
