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I spun back around and carefully opened the front door, watching the shadows as I stepped outside. When nothing immediately happened, I started down the steps. I was most worried about the men staying in the houses at the end of the street. That’s where Baz’s top men stayed.
“Skylar, I need you to get to the SUV, now.”
I heard her move behind me as I backed up. When I was sure it was clear, I turned and ran for the driver’s side. Hopping in, I tossed my bag in the back seat and set my spare gun in the center console.
We were almost out of the neighborhood when I spotted the first tail. “I need you to get in the back and get down.”
“Why, what’s?—”
Gunfire shattered the back window, forcing me to jerk the wheel and take a hard right down a street I didn’t want to take. I hit the gas, heading right for the interstate. I had wanted to stick to the side roads, keeping all the action off the major roads, but that wasn’t an option any longer.
“What’s going on?” Skylar shouted, covering her head as more gunfire pinged off the truck.
“Just stay down!”
I picked up speed as we took the ramp to the interstate. The single vehicle behind us became three, then a few more than that. “Now would be a really fucking good time for backup,” I muttered.
But when you were alone, you were forced to be creative, to take measures you normally wouldn’t. I swerved in and out of traffic, thankful that rush hour was in the other direction.
“Skylar, we have a lot of company, and I really need you to pull up your big girl panties and grab a gun.”
“What if I didn’t wear them?” she shouted.
“Then pull up that thong!”
I barely saw the shake of her head as she grabbed the gun on the console and held it in her hands. “Is this thing loaded?”
“I would be really bad at my job if it wasn’t.”
“Okay, so…I just point and shoot?”
“I actually need you to do something else for me. There’s a big black bag in the back seat. I need you to get a few things for me.”
“Okay,” she answered, her voice rattling as she climbed over the seat and pulled the bag onto the seat beside her. “What am I looking for?”
“Something that looks like tacks.”
I swerved around a car that was going slow in the fast lane. Laying on the horn, I nearly clipped another vehicle trying to get around the lady on her phone.
“I think I found them!” Skylar shouted, holding out a bag of silver tacks.
“That’s it. I need you to throw them out the window.”
“What?” she screeched. “That’ll cause an accident!”
“That’s the point,” I said, glancing back at her. “It’s them or us.”
I saw the indecision on her face, but she rolled down the window and dumped the bag out the window. I picked up speed, wanting to get out of the crash zone. It didn’t take long for chaos to erupt. Multiple vehicles crashed behind us, leaving a wake of destruction that was bound to slow down anyone following us.
With a good distance between us and anyone following, I grabbed my phone and dialed Dash.
“Rae, how nice of you to call.”
“Dash, I need a place to lay low for a while.”
“And you called me? That’s so sweet of you.”
“I called you because you’re the IT guy at the office right now,” I spat.
