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He bumped up onto the bridge.
Kenna pressed the button while the window rolled down. Wind whipped at her hair and her shirt, and rain sprayed into the cab of the truck. She ignored the weather that wanted to push her back to her seat and got the gun and both arms out the window. Kenna rested her elbows on the open window ledge. Fast as she could, Kenna sighted the vehicle behind and squeezed off a shot.
She pulled again and sent a few more rounds into the passenger side window, splintering the windshield glass.
An armed man leaned out. She squeezed and put a round in him.
He slumped down out the open window.
She shot a couple more times toward the hood and managed to hit the target. Hopefully, that would disable the vehicle enough they’d have to break off pursuit. She couldn’t see more than the one trailing vehicle.
“One down.” She settled back in her seat. “Now you need to lose them.”
Ramon bumped over the bridge going faster than she would have.
Kenna gripped the door handle and held on. Then spotted a dark house built on the far side of the river, someone’s dream property with a view.
The truck recoiled against the ground, and Ramon jerked the wheel in a two-handed grip to the left, causing the back end to spin out.
She gritted her teeth and prayed.
A bullet shattered the driver’s side window, and Ramon grunted. Probably the shock of it caused him to let go of the wheel with his left hand. Still, he drove toward the street behind the house, where the front door would be located in the backyard, which adjoined the bank of the river.
She pushed out “not the time” thoughts about what kind of place she might like. As if she needed to get sentimental when everything was upside down.
Whatever You want.
Ramon bumped the corner and took out the low fence around a planter. He kept going, ignoring everything around them. “We need to switch places.”
She twisted to him. “Did you get shot?”
Ramon grunted. “You need to drive or we’re not going to make it.”
ChapterTwenty-Seven
Kenna unbuckled herself, slid to the middle, and grabbed the wheel. “Keep pushing down on the gas pedal.” She held the wheel with both hands and got them on a straight road, driving down the center line. “Which way gets us to the ranch?”
Far as she could tell, it was still at least thirty minutes to the ranch, and they had little more time than that if they wanted to make Navarro’s deadline. Free her friends.
Ramon gasped.
She held the wheel straight and glanced over at his left shoulder. He had his right hand braced on the wheel, sweat coming down from his temples. His far side was covered in blood. The bullet could still be in there and it would do serious damage, considering it lodged in a major joint.
She told him, “Hang on.”
His left arm lay limp in his lap. He swayed forward and leaned against her left shoulder for a second before pushing off the dash with his right hand and slumping back against the seat. He pressed down on the gas pedal.
“Ease off the speed.” She winced. “We don’t need to go so fast we’re out of control.”
Kenna spotted a car on a side street. She flashed the headlights as a warning, praying they didn’t pull out in front of her. She didn’t want to crash.
They passed under streetlights that swayed with the gathering wind. She knocked the lever for the windshield wipers up to fight harder against the pounding rain.
The vehicle behind them sped up and bumped the back of the car.
Kenna hissed out a breath.
Ramon sucked in a painful gasp.
