After Flux (The Flux Series Book 2) by Marissa Farrar

Author:Marissa Farrar [Farrar, Marissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, series, Marissa Farrar
Publisher: Warwick House Press
Published: 2017-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

We held our collective breath, waiting to see what the other vehicle would do. Trying not to appear obvious, we all watched as the car slid past and continued along the freeway.

I exhaled a huff of air. “Thank God.”

“Yeah,” said Dixie. “I wasn’t quite ready for a fight.”

“Who would the fight have been with, though?” I said. “Myriad Group people, or do you think someone else? The people responsible for the attacks?”

She frowned. “It could have been anyone. We don’t even know they were following us for sure. They might have been perfectly innocent.”

I glanced in the direction the SUV had traveled. “They’re gone now, though. Perhaps it was just a coincidence.”

She nodded in agreement. “Yeah, maybe. It’s normal for us to be paranoid, considering the situation.”

Kit threw open the car door and climbed out. “We might as well stop and grab a quick coffee while we’re here.”

“We’ve only been on the road a little over an hour,” Dixie pointed out.

“Ten minutes isn’t going to make any difference,” he said, “and I don’t know about you, but I could sure use the caffeine.”

Hunter pushed open the back door on his side. “Yeah, I’m hungry, too.”

“Didn’t you eat just before we left?” I teased him.

“Takes a lot of pastries to maintain this body,” he said, grinning and patting his rock-hard stomach.

I laughed and felt myself loosen up. It was good to see the more relaxed side of Hunter. He must feel the pressure of the Cavern, and everything else happening around us, as much as I did. Just ’cause he acted like a tough guy most of the time didn’t mean he was immune to it all.

We must have looked like a group of college kids as we went inside and ordered ourselves various coffees—lattes for Dixie and me, flat-whites for Hunter and Zane, and black for Kit—and bags of chips and other snacks. Aware of the time passing by, we all climbed back in the car, and Kit pulled back onto the freeway.

Back on the road, the time passed comfortably. We drank our beverages, ate snacks, chatted, and watched the countryside go by. Even Zane started to relax. I tried not to think about what we would need to do when we hit Los Angeles.

“Guys,” Kit said suddenly. “I might be imagining things, but I think we’ve got another one.”

Hunter sat forward. “Another what?”

“Another car trailing us.”

“Seriously?”

We all twisted back again. Another black SUV, almost identical to the first one, was not far behind.

“Is it the same one?” I asked. “It looks the same.”

Kit squinted in the rear-view mirror. “I’m not sure.”

“They could have pulled in somewhere further ahead of the rest stop and waited for us to pass by.”

“Yeah, maybe, but I think it might be a different vehicle. I’m sure the license plate number isn’t the same.”

Alarm raced through me. “There might be more than one of them?”

Hunter lifted both hands to silence us all. “Take a breath, guys. Let’s be rational about this. We don’t know for sure the first car was following us, and we can’t be sure this one is either.

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