A Girl Called Fearless: A Novel by Catherine Linka

Author:Catherine Linka [Linka, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Dystopian, Love & Romance, Girls & Women, Action & Adventure, General
ISBN: 9781250039309
Google: I2R-AgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1250039290
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2014-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Underground

52

The small plane climbed into the air, the engine roaring like a food processor grinding walnut shells. It wobbled in the wind, and I grabbed my seat and held on. The mountains on either side were solid black cutouts and within a minute or two the city lights suddenly ended.

I imagined Yates driving back alone through the mountains and dropping Prandip’s car back at her office. I shuddered, wondering if Roik or the police would be waiting for Yates at his apartment.

Yates had to go to classes and work and pretend he wasn’t involved in my disappearance, but Ho would hire investigators to hack Yates’ phone and computer.

Please, please be okay.

I knew I had to focus on myself right now. I couldn’t get distracted. I adjusted the mike on my headset. “Where are we going?”

“You don’t have to yell. Mike works pretty good,” Ruby said.

I waited for Ruby to tell me where, but she didn’t. “That your boyfriend?” she asked.

“He’s a friend.” Ruby probably guessed that we weren’t shaking hands good-bye in that hangar, but if she wasn’t handing out information, I wasn’t going to, either.

“You got a phone on you?” she asked.

“Yes?”

“Get it out. I need to adjust the settings for the altitude.”

I’d never heard of that, but I’d never ridden in a small plane, either.

“Good.” She jerked the window open and pitched my phone right out. The window slammed shut, smacking Ruby hard.

“What the hell are you doing! That was mine!”

She rubbed her arm. “Damn. That hurt.”

“Why’d you do that?”

“Listen, missy, I’m cutting the trail you left. Making sure your daddy doesn’t track you right to that signal.”

“That phone wasn’t registered to me. My friend got it.”

“So nobody knew you had it. Never saw it even once?”

I didn’t answer her. Roik knew.

“I see. Then you’re better off dumping it in the desert. It won’t stop the Retrievers, but it’ll slow ’em down a bit.”

Now Yates had no way to reach me!

The seatbelt felt like a straitjacket. Here I was, trapped with a crazy lady pilot, going who the hell knows where, no clue if I could trust her.

And, on top of that, she threw out all the photos I’d transferred to the phone. Gone! My pictures of Mom and Dad. Yates. Dayla. Ms. A. Not to mention the songs Yates had sent me. Things I’d counted on to keep me sane while we were apart. Dumped in the freaking desert.

I hit the door with my fist, and Ruby smacked my shoulder. “Don’t do that.”

Ruby looked like she’d wrestle me out of the seat if I tried anything, but I still glared back at her. “Nobody told me you’d toss my phone.”

“Stop your whining. That boy’ll walk through fire to see you again. You’ve got his code and you’ll get a new phone in no time. Right now you’re free from whoever you’re running from. So shape up.”

My cheeks flared in the dark. “Sorry.”

Ruby ignored me.

The plane crossed a double line of headlights and taillights that went on for miles.

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