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I curled my fingers over the wheel after starting the engine, allowing a few precious seconds to say, “Oh, shit fucker.”
Put me at a round felt table and I could run the other players like a professional gamer destroying their enemies one-by-one, but put me in a getaway vehicle and I’d tangle us up in a garden hose before getting us free and clear of any police chase.
“Gotta try.” I nodded to myself. “Only choice.”
“Drive back to the house, around back. There’s a side road.”
Theo’s head was tipped back, his eyes at half-mast, but his voice sounded stronger.
“Okay,” I said.
I tore out of the parking spot on the side of the road and speared through the gates, knocking one iron half to an awkward angle.
“Sorry,” I said over the motor. “That’s gonna scratch.”
“I care so little right now.”
Jaw clenched, I wrenched the car to the left, tossing Theo against me. He cursed, I apologized again, then pressed harder on the gas.
There. Side road entrance.
I gunned toward it, tires skidding, praying I didn’t hit an animal or—dear Lord—a human, because I wasn’t in any position to slow down.
We hit gravel, stones spitting up and spattering against the chrome, spewing dust in our wake. If ever there was a person to leave an evidence trail, it was me.
“Trace? Dad?”
“I don’t know,” I said to Theo.
He sighed, despite being jostled around.
“We’ll hit level road soon,” I said. Hoped. Or a bridge. That would be nice.
“We should go to Kai’s,” he said. “They won’t suspect…”
“Who? The police or your family?” Then I added, “We can’t go there anyway.”
“Why not?”
“Let me get us out of this, then we can talk, okay?” My butt bounced up and down in the bucket seat. Another fucking treat to low-riding cars, feeling every single goddamned pebble.
“You’re avoiding the question.”
“What if I am?” I said, then made a sharp right onto actual road. The gravel side-street had only been about a block and a half long. “I don’t drive that much. I have to concentrate.”
“You’re doing a great job.”
I risked a glance at him so I could spot the sarcasm. I couldn’t.
“Thank you,” he said.
“Consider us even,” I said. “We keep saving each other’s lives in one way or another.”
“Wow,” he said.
I risked another glance. “What?”
“I expected a rebuff to the thank you.”
