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The driver set the SUV in motion and drove a long way. Soon, the vehicle was climbing and maneuvering around tight curves.
All the while, Jasmine worked at breaking the zip tie binding her wrist. At last, it broke, and her hands were free.
She brought her knees up to her chin and worked on the zip tie around her ankles. She was able to break through it far easier.
Free from bondage, all she had to do was wait for Demopoulos to reach Bertolli and pray Bertolli hadn’t harmed her son. Better yet, she hoped Ace would get her son out before Demopoulos arrived with the RPG.
The SUV climbed up into the mountains and slowed to a stop.
Both the driver and Demopoulos got out, leaving the front doors open.
Jasmine sheathed her knife and dared to sit up to study her surroundings.
Demopoulos stood beside the man who’d thrown her into the SUV.
Another SUV was parked behind the one Jasmine was in. Four men stood beside it.
With these five men and Demopoulos, there were six men ready to storm Bertolli’s estate.
The man with the bloody nose raised an RPG to his shoulder.
Jasmine tensed. If she wanted to make a break for it, she should do it when he fired the rocket propelled grenade.
She climbed up onto the back seat and tested the door handle. It was locked again with the child safety lock.
While Demopoulos and his guys were all focusing on the RPG, Jasmine got ready to make her way to freedom.
The man with the RPG adjusted his position, aimed and fired toward a gate.
Jasmine crawled over the console.
A loud explosion sounded.
Jasmine slipped out the open door of the SUV, dropped to the ground and crawled on her hands and knees toward the side of the road. No one shouted or came running toward her.
She crept behind a bush, looked for the next shadow and launched herself toward it, running fast to put as much distance as she could between herself and Demopoulos’s men.
A shout sounded behind her, but she didn’t slow down.
When she looked back, the SUVs were moving toward a hole where the gate had been.
Jasmine lay low until the vehicles rolled into the compound.
She scanned the area where the SUVs had been parked, searching for anyone Demopoulos might have left behind.
Nothing moved.
Shouts sounded from inside the wall. Several bursts of gunfire echoed in the darkness.
Her heart hammering, Jasmine ran toward the gate, desperate to find Eli before he was caught between the two warring factions.
She eased up to the hole in the wall and peered around the ragged edges toward the house sitting on the hilltop.
Inside the compound, the SUV doors were open, and the vehicle appeared empty.
Jasmine darted through the opening and into the compound, clinging to what shadows she could as she made her way toward the house.
Where was Eli? Was Ace here? Had he gotten to Eli and moved him somewhere safe?
