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“We’re still at the bungalow.”
“Lock yourselves indoors and set the alarms. I’ll send someone over, someone you will know.”
Derek called Jack, ignoring the paramedic who was trying to get him to stand still long enough to be treated.
“McCord.”
“Jack, don’t freak out. Maia is fine. I need a favor.”
“What happened?”
“Someone tried to kill us.”
“Fuck! Where are you guys now?”
“We’re on the Beltway; the Escalade is totaled.”
“What exit?”
Derek heard the jingle of keys and knew his friend was about to race out to find them.
“Jack, listen, I need you to get to Sophie; these guys may be after her.”
“Damn you, Derek!”
“Jack, Maia is fine—”
His friend hung up on him. Derek cursed in frustration and watched Maia answer her phone.
“News travels fast,” Maia said, her eyes cutting to Derek. She tried to keep her wince out of her voice when the paramedic started to clean the cuts on forehead. “Baby, I’m in one piece. Calm. Down.”
“Maia, he needs to get Sophie to AGS,” Derek said.
“Jack, you do not need to come here. Make yourself useful and get Sophie to AGS. I do not need to go to the hospital…AGS has everything… Jack, damn it, will you listen to me? Stop wasting time. Get Sophie. Derek will text you the address.”
Maia hung up on her husband.
“You need to have yourself checked out,” Maia said, eyeing Derek carefully as he quickly typed in Sophie’s address.
A wave of dizziness suddenly hit him, so he sat down beside her. The paramedic who was following him around gave a sigh of relief and started cleaning his cuts.
“We need to get you both to the hospital, have some x-rays done.”
“We’re fine!” Derek and Maia said in unison.
“Uh-huh,” the paramedic, who was patching up Maia, said. “You probably sustained a concussion, maybe a broken rib.”
“Well, a broken rib, there’s not much that can be done about that, is there?” Maia pointed out. The paramedic fell silent, but he was repressing a grin.
The cop who was first on the scene walked up to them.
“So witnesses said someone shot out your front tire.”
“Officer, we’d rather keep this off the radar.”
The paramedics looked at each other. The cop raised an eyebrow.
“Are you folks in some sort of trouble?”
