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Blocking our exit was a man sitting on what looked like a moped.
I glanced at Cobra when I felt the Plymouth gaining speed instead of slowing down.
“You’re not going to hit him, are you?”
I pretty much knew the answer and was already double checking my seatbelt, but figured it didn’t hurt to ask.
“Of course not,” he scoffed. “I’m just gonna move him out of the way.”
“You’re going to mess the car up,” Annie said, sounding worried for the first time.
“Nah, why do you think I put the guard rail on it?”
Neither of us had time to respond. The man actually tried to move, but it was too late. His tiny bike began to roll forward, but the front of the car was already smashing into him.
His bike went down and he came up, rolling right over the guard wheel and on to the hood.
Cobra hit the brakes and he flew off, hitting the ground like a pile of bricks. He never stood a chance.
Cobra hit the gas again and rolled right over him, a sickening crunch and inhuman scream following in our wake.
I glanced in the side mirror and saw he’d become one with the asphalt, hardly recognizable as a person.
“You fuckin see that?” Cobra whooped, glancing in his rearview.
“I will never ride in a car with you again,” I breathed, thanking the powers above we were all still in one piece.
“I’d never let anything happen to you, Blue. Ever. You’re safe with me.” He looked over at me and smiled.
Losing another piece of my heart, this time for something worth it, I smiled back.
Chapter Nineteen
COBRA
I was nervous.
Like a kid bringing a date home to meet Mommy and Daddy kinda nervous.
Blue woke up just as I was approaching the twelve foot barbed wire fence that surrounded the compound.
The acolytes mann
ing the guard shack saw me coming and let the gate slide open, pulling the hyenas, Max and Toby, out of harm’s way.
“I forgot how big this place was,” Blue mumbled, staring out at the expansive desert-like field. The sun was setting, giving it all a pretty pink glow.
“By this time in two years, that will all be different shit,” I explained as we drove along.
“You guys are still growing?” She looked back at me with wide eyes.
“Hell yeah we are. It’s only going to get worse after we take Centriole.”
She nodded and looked up at the flagpole we were passing, Romero’s symbol flying on it.
It was something she’d have to get used to.
She went silent for a minute before asking, “What happened to the man who rescued me?”
