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I reach up with both hands and wince as I touch the spot that hurts most, and when I bring my hands back in front of myself, I see blood coating my fingers.
The car finally comes to a stop, and I hold my breath. If the window is broken, I might be able to reach out and open the door, or even crawl out of the window. I might be able to escape.
When I turn my attention back to the men in front of me, I’m staring into Kyle’s furious gaze, and my breath stutters in my chest.
“You’re going to regret that.”
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
ACE
Elijah drives like he has a fucking death wish.
Every corner he takes is sharper than the last, and I’m beginning to wonder if we’re going to make it to Mia alive.
Everett has been giving us regular updates, which is giving me some semblance of calm, but I won’t feel settled until I have my woman back in my arms. After all this is said and done, I don’t know how I’m ever going to be able to let her out of my sight. I was struggling before. But now? Now that she’s been taken from me while I was there, while I was tied up and rendered useless? I don’t know how I’m going to recover from that.
“What the hell are they doing?” Rayne says and startles me from my thoughts.
“What’s going on?” I ask.
“As soon as they turned around at the last road closure, they started swerving all over the road.”
My stomach gurgles with uncertainty. “Can you get any closer?”
“Not without drawing suspicion to ourselves,” Storm tells us.
I nod despite them not being able to see me. I get it. I’ve done my fair share of surveillance when my computers couldn’t give me the answers I needed, but it does nothing to settle my anxiety about Mia and her safety.
“Everett, can you change this light up here to green?” Rayne’s voice is nervous. There’s something he’s not saying.
“Don’t we want to slow them down?” Elijah asks.
“We do. But they’re not slowing down. Whatever is going on in that car is distracting the driver, and I think they’re going to run straight through,” Storm explains.
“Fuck,” Everett mutters, and I hear the comforting tapping of a keyboard. I’m not cut out for being in the field. I do much better behind a screen where I have eyes on the whole situation. But right now, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.
“Everett?” Storm asks with more urgency, and my stomach bottoms out with panic.
“Change the goddamn light,” Elijah snaps. “We’re a few blocks away, and I can see the fucking green light from here.”
“I’m trying. But funnily enough, hacking into the city’s servers isn’t a fucking walk in the park.”
I rub my hands over my face and spot the blood seeping through the bandages around my wrists. Better not let Elijah see it, or he’ll be angry about something else.
“They’re speeding up. I don’t know what the fuck is happening in the car, but I don’t think it’s good,” Rayne says.
Fuck. I almost wish they would stop giving updates because each one is dragging me closer and closer to the edge of my temper.
“Okay, it’s changing now.” Everett breathes out a sigh of relief, and I let one out right alongside him.
I haven’t taken a fucking holiday in my life, but after this, I think I’m going to need one.
I watch with bated breath as the light two intersections ahead of us turns yellow, and I almost allow my body to relax, but then I see the car speeding toward the intersection. The one who is definitely not going the speed limit in order to avoid the red light.
Everything moves in slow motion as I watch the SUV Mia’s in speed through the intersection at the same time the car ahead of us does, and then it’s spinning out of control, and my heart leaps straight from my chest.
Please don’t let all of this be for nothing.
