Claws That Catch: Blackwell Magic Urban Fantasy, Book 4 by Kevin O. McLaughlin

Author:Kevin O. McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Kevin O.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Role of the Hero Publishing
Published: 2016-06-08T06:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

I did the only thing I could think of that might help. I drove my foot onto the brake pedal as hard as I could.

The BMW careened to a stop, tires squealing. The rear end of the car tried to fishtail forward, and I jerked the wheel to the right to keep it on course. The hellcat had been holding on against our forward acceleration. It wasn’t braced for a sudden stop. It flew through the air as the car stopped cold. It slammed into the pavement in front of me, rolling a few times with the force of the impact.

It was on its feet again faster than I would have believed possible, and running at the car. What was it going to take to stop this thing?

“Oh no you don’t,” I muttered as I brought my foot back to the accelerator. The car roared forward again. The cat was too damned fast, though! It dove sideways, easily dodging the oncoming vehicle.

At least I was out in front of it again. I made sure to leave a little more distance and kept a close eye on it. If it tried to go to super-speed mode again, well – this car could do zero to sixty pretty quickly. It could go from thirty to sixty even faster, and I was pretty sure that the hellcat couldn’t maintain sixty miles an hour.

We kept driving that way for several more miles. I wanted to put some serious distance between us and Clayton before I went to phase two of the plan. That was going to be even harder than I’d thought. Somehow, I had to turn around and head back to Clayton, and drive as fast as the car could go the entire way back so I could get at least a few minutes lead time on the thing.

I kept my eyes peeled for likely prospects as I drove along. That, and one eye on my rear view mirror. I didn’t want to lose the cat, and I didn’t want it to get too close, either. I was lucky that there was so little traffic out here this late at night.

We’d been going along like that for about half an hour before I spotted a really likely candidate for my turnaround. There was a little strip mall off the side of the road. That might just do the trick. I turned off, the cat still in close pursuit.

I gunned the engine a little going into the parking lot. Then I started around the back of the building, where the delivery trucks would go to drop stuff off on loading bays. My plan was to do a full pass around the building, come around the other side and get back out to the main road.

What I wasn’t counting on was the chain link fence blocking my way.

I didn’t have time to think about what to do next. I pushed the accelerator all the way to the floor, gunned the engine for all it was worth, and hung on for dear life.

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