Carrie Asai - Samurai Girl 04 by The Book of the Wind

Author:The Book of the Wind
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-10T23:34:48+00:00

8

As the sun began to send orange and purple streaks through the morning sky, Teddy and I drove out of Vegas. The only sound was the air whistling through the open windows.

About half an hour in I noticed that the road signs were telling us that we were driving toward L.A. “All right, stop the car,” I said.

“What?” Teddy said.

“Are you insane?” I shrieked. “Are you driving us back to L.A?”

“Yes,” Teddy said. “My dogs can help us.”

“Are you completely brain damaged?” I said. “We both had to flee L.A. Did I tell you that someone burned down the place where I was staying? Did I tell you that I have nowhere to go in L.A? Did I tell you that if I had known this was where we were going, I wouldn’t have gotten in the car with you?”

“Look, don’t freak,” Teddy said. “I promise you you’re gonna be safe. And anyway, Vegas is lame. I’m glad to be outta there.”

“But we can’t go to L.A.!” I said again, panicking. “There’s no one I can trust there!” I thought fleetingly of Hiro. “Turn the car around. Let’s go back to Vegas. We can hide in a hotel and think.”

“No can do,” Teddy said. “I’m over the whole Vegas scene. I had to split.”

I read between the lines. Teddy couldn’t go back to Vegas. He probably did have massive gambling debts. Maybe something even worse than that.

Rage bubbled up inside me. So the attack in front of Katie’s house had really had everything to do with Teddy?

But wait. They wanted me. They’d followed me.

But Teddy seemed to think the attack had something to do with him.

But then…he’d scared them away with his gun.

God, I was confused.

What was I doing in this car?

“So, what, have you pissed off Diego and Pablo or something?” I asked. “Are they drug dealers?”

“No,” Teddy said, too quickly. He was lying. There was fear in his voice.

We sped along the straight highway, headed toward L.A.

“Listen, I really think L.A. is the best for us right now. We can lay low in this place my buddy’s got, figure out what’s what, then maybe get out of the country,” he said.

“Haven’t you heard me at all?” I said, my voice rising to a higher pitch. “I think this is a bad idea.” Then something horrible occurred to me. “Is this…is this just some plot to marry me again?”

“Well,” Teddy said. My heart pounded. Oh my God. This was what he was planning. Oh God, get me out of this car! “If you think about it, marrying would solve everything. It could buy us some time.”

“No!” I shrieked. I clutched the door handle. “God, I knew you were too good to be true! Like, you’d got all like good-hearted and everything, and maybe you had a little moment of weakness or morality or whatever when you got me out of the marriage a couple of weeks ago, but obviously that was just temporary insanity, is that it?”

“No…,” Teddy said.

I kept going.

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