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“No way,”Ninasaid.
The shiver shaking her body made me mad as hell. “She doesn’t want to go to thehospital.”
“I heard.” Zar flashed his fangs. “Whyisthat?”
“Do we really have to talk about that shit now?” Couldn’t he see that she was hurting and exhausted and making a huge effort to hold ittogether?
“Lots on the line,” was allZarsaid.
He wasn’t wrongaboutthat.
“Look, I realize this all sounds really bad,” Nina said, demonstrating she had balls, ’cause Zar was an intimidating son of a bitch and she had to be burning fumes in her tank. “But the longer we linger here, the worse it is. For everybody. Right now, your lives are in danger. Because you’re with me. If they come, we’re all going to be in deeptrouble.”
“Why are you telling us this?” I asked, aiming to show Aiden and Zar the kind of person we were dealing with. “You could’ve told us a lie orsomething.”
“And get you killed for no reason at all?” She shook her head. “Uh-uh. I don’tthinkso.”
I looked at the guys and gave them a mental “thereyougo.”
Zar was in no mood for mercy. “Who’s ‘they’ and what do ‘they’ wantwithyou?”
“Can’t tell you, for your own good.” Nina held her ground. “Gotthat?”
“Yeah.” Zar glared. “I got it allright.”
Aiden let out a sigh, dropped his load at the top of the bank, and picked his way between the rocks on his way downtous.
“Where the hell are you going?” Zarasked.
“Well,” Aiden mumbled, jumping across the creek from one boulder to the next. “When she puts it clear as mud like that, I’m gonna take her where she wantstogo.”
Zar’s glare found a new target on Aiden. “Seriously?”
“We can’t leave her here.” Aiden clambered overtous.
Zar growled. “Why thehellnot?”
“She’s wearing aGlobal MayhemT-shirt.”
“So?” Zar’s gaze shifted to the emblem on Nina’s pink shirt and sodidmine.
“Means she’s cool.” Aidan came to stand next to us on the slab of granite, his large, tall body casting a long shadow over Nina. “She’s gotta be. Not too manyofher.”
She craned her neck and met Aiden’s gaze. “YouknowGlobalMayhem?”
“Swedish. Alternative rock.Digit.”
Her mouth went a little slack. “I’ve never met anyone who knewaboutthem.”
Aiden actually smiled. “You and me,kiddo.”
It was more words than I’d heard from Aiden all week, hell, maybe even all month, and they included a smile, his genuine one. It also made the vote two against one, so we had our marchingorders.
“We need to get moving,” I said. “The storm is closing in and we’ve got some clicks tocover.”
“I’ll take a look at the wreck while you get her ready,” Zar grumbled, the sore loser. He took off, moving swiftly uphill, on thelookout.
I grabbed my crutches. “Shall wedothis?”
