Erased (Altered) by Rush Jennifer

Author:Rush, Jennifer [Rush, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure - General, Juvenile Fiction / Science & Technology, Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-01-07T08:00:00+00:00

18

THE FEMALE AGENT WIDENED HER EYES and swung toward Nick. I ripped a fire extinguisher off the wall and whacked her over the head with it. She dropped next to her fallen partner.

“Jesus!” I shouted at Nick. “She had a gun on me. She could have killed me!”

“Start stripping them.”

“What?”

“Just do it.”

I peeled off the woman’s boots, then her pants. I tore off her hat, and a cascade of brown hair fanned over the floor. I had to wrestle with her jacket and T-shirt.

“Now what?” I asked.

Nick scanned the empty hallway before darting inside a darkened office. The door said it was an accounting business. “In here,” he said. He dumped the first agent’s clothes in a closet, but saved the walkie-talkie. I dumped the woman’s clothes next to the other pile and shut the door.

“Out,” Nick said, pointing at the window.

Without questioning this time, I unlatched the window and shoved upward. The wind pulsed inside, rattling the bamboo blinds. I eased onto the ledge, which overlooked an adjoining office building. Nick came out next and shut the window quietly. He held the agent’s earpiece between us. I could hear voices faintly through the device.

“Unit one, check in,” someone said.

“Unit one, roger,” a woman said.

“Unit two, check in.”

Silence.

“Unit two, check in.”

Nick spoke through a tiny microphone on the device’s cord. “Unit two momentarily knocked unconscious. We seem to be… um… missing our clothes.”

More silence. My teeth began chattering together as I pressed against the building’s exterior. I could already feel my nose turning red in the cold.

“All units,” the person said, “identify your partners. Suspects are believed to be posing as agents in uniform. I repeat, identify your partners.”

A smirk touched the corners of Nick’s lips. “Ready to jump?” he asked.

The next building was also a two-story building, but it was at least six feet shorter.

“What if I break my leg?” I said, more to myself than to Nick.

“What if an agent hits you with a tranq and takes you into headquarters, and they wipe your memory?”

I cringed. “Point taken.”

“On three,” he said. “One. Two. Three.”

I jumped and my arms spun. When I hit the roof of the next building, I tucked into a forward roll to avoid breaking any bones. Nick did the same, and we took off at a run. We leapt over a small ledge between buildings.

A bullet hit the brick chimney two feet to my left. I slid over a patch of ice as I slowed, glancing over my shoulder.

Riley was standing in the window we’d just escaped from, his gun aimed right at me.

Nick yanked me in the opposite direction. Another bullet blazed overhead, pinging off a return air vent.

Nick ran to the edge of the roof, where the row of buildings ended in an alley. He didn’t slow, and every instinct told me to pull back, dig my feet in before I leapt to my death. But Nick had never put me in harm’s way.

I had to trust him. The alternative wasn’t any safer.

We leapt off the roof.

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