By a Thread by Nyna Queen

Author:Nyna Queen [Queen, Nyna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781798791714
Publisher: Levire
Published: 2019-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

AH, shit!

Shouting something, the PO reached for his holster and pulled out a gun. Behind him, the youth turned in mid-movement, an expression of complete bafflement spliced on his pretty face.

Alex stared down the black hole of the barrel pointing at the front of the car, ridiculously small, but dangerously close, and noted the beads of sweat on the guy’s face, the finger visibly shivering at the trigger. All blood drained from her face. Fuck, he would shoot!

She wasn’t the only one seeing it.

“Hold on!” Darken barked and stomped on the gas pedal.

A shot rang, like a cannon blast, ripping at Alex’s eardrums. The bullet raced toward them, but instead of piercing Darken’s forehead, it merely screeched along the hood of the car with the sound of chalk being drawn along a blackboard. The car slammed into the shot, sending him crashing into the windshield and rolling over the hood of the car. His tumbling body thumped against the metal.

The children screamed.

Darken didn’t stop. Steel crunched and groaned as he rammed several cars in the waiting line, pushing them to the sides, where they hit others, causing a domino reaction of crashes that propagated into an undulating picture of destruction.

Tires squeaked loudly as people tried to bring their precious vehicles out of the danger zone, while Darken bumped their way through the mass of cars, leaving shouts and tumult behind.

In front of them, a roadblock appeared, made of pylons and red-and-white-striped wood planks on metal beams. Officers were swarming toward it, shouting and waving. Alex threw one glance at Darken’s face and grabbed the side handle.

Darken pushed his foot down. The POs froze and then scattered like fish in front of an attacking shark.

They hit the barrier at about fifty miles an hour and broke through, sending metal pieces and wood flying, and merged into the flowing traffic up toward Gomorrha.

Alex’s heart was performing a mad stomp-dance in her chest. A small trickle of blood dribbled down the front shield, fanning out to the sides due to their speed like wrong-colored rain.

“Damn!” Darken slapped the wheel with his palm, as he raced along at a suicidal neck-break speed, overtaking cars left and right, missing them only by inches, his face a rigid mask. “Curse those halfborn Peace Officers. Always so quick of the mark!”

Alex gave him a surprised side glance.

“What?” he snarled, eyes two burning pools of red.

She swallowed, unsettled by the lethal fury in his gaze.

“It’s just—I … you’re forfeit,” she said, trying to order the thoughts rattling inside her head. “I just didn’t think—”

“You didn’t think what?” His voice was too soft; a dangerously sleepy croon, like a knife running along soft skin, looking for a place to cut.

A shudder went over her. It suddenly was hard to breathe. “I just didn’t think, you know—one death more or less …”

The moment the words were out, she knew that she’d said the wrong thing. His hands grew so stiff on the wheel she heard the leather crack and had an uncanny vision of her own neck breaking.

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