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A bright light flares behind us. The arena building blazes to life.
They’ve figured out how to turn on the floodlights.
More lights switch on.
If this keeps up, the whole place will look like daytime in a minute.
“Found it,” Conner announces. “Here’s the gate. It’s propped open with a rock.” Rusted hinges scream as he pushes it open. “Shit, that’s loud.”
Micah herds me over there. “Let’s get the fuck out of here.”
But now there are tires squealing through the narrow lanes of The Catacombs. A voice heckles from a bullhorn, ranting in a deranged singsong. I know that voice. Once it called me a rich bitch.
“RING AROUND THE ROSIE.
WE’LL FUCK YOUR GIRLFRIEND SLOWLY.
THEN WE’LL SLICE YOU. AND WE’LL DICE YOU.
TILL YOU’RE WITH YOUR DAD!”
There are sirens now, distant ones. But it’s the east side. Sirens are a constant soundtrack. No way to tell if they’re on their way here or not.
“Dammit,” says Conner as he takes stock of what’s on the other side of the gate. “All open ground.”
Open ground. Nowhere to hide.
We’re far from the parking lot, even farther from any retail or residential areas.
Our choices are bleak.
Stay here, huddled in one of the crumbling buildings and pray we’re not found.
Or else make a run for it and hope we can move faster than they do.
I’ve never felt my own limitations more acutely. I’m neither fast nor strong.
Micah has already made a decision. “Time to leave.”
He pushes me into Conner’s chest and Conner narrowly keeps me from stumbling.
I expect Micah to be right behind me.
The gate shrieks closed.
With Micah on the other side, locking himself in.
He looks at us through the fence grate. “You need to get her out of here, Con.”
“FUCK!” Conner gives the gate a savage pull. It shudders but holds. “No fucking way, not leaving you.”
Desperate panic leaves me breathless. We’re still on one side of the gate and Micah is on the other.
With men who intend to kill him.
“Go now.” He takes a step back.
Somewhere behind him there’s a screech of brakes and the revving of an engine. They are closing in.
