Hour of Return [Impact Series, Book Five] by Harley Vex

Author:Harley Vex [Vex, Harley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

TESSA

She hated driving in the back but was glad she made Brett take the middle.

Slowly, she applied pressure to the gas as they slid down a very long hill, and towards a town sign that wasn’t Marion. It was a snow-crusted sign for Dalton, a different town, and Marion was about thirty miles beyond that if she remembered right.

That was thirty miles for the caravan behind them to catch up.

“Tessa, they count on us to go into the ditch, and there are some scary ditches here. We have to slow down.”

“And let them hunt us?” Desperate people might not plan like that, but it depended, and she wasn’t sure what type of predator pursued them. Her own words sent a spike of black ice down her spine and sweat broke out under her coat. Yes, they were being hunted, like deer or boars, and those people back there would take everything they owned.

Maybe they’d already taken the owner of that abandoned car or killed any rangers in that station.

“Should we hide?” Mikey asked, eyeing the trees.

The snow, of course, wasn’t coming down with much intensity now. Only a few stray flakes made it past the canopy, but enough accumulated on the forest floor to create a trail. “We’ll leave tracks, and there isn’t much underbrush here.”

Mikey gulped and looked over his shoulder. “I don’t see them, but when they crest that hill, I’d say they’re about a third of a mile back. We might have an advantage with our vehicles, but don’t go over forty-five at all, and try to stay below that.”

Ahead, Brett honked, relaying the message, and Louie stuck her hand out the window, alerting Alex, who drove in front of them. They sped up, and Tessa watched her speedometer as it crept up from thirty to nearly forty. The road didn’t feel solid, but her tires gripped it well enough to keep them between all the trees.

They all might not survive another shootout, and they’d have no element of surprise like they did back in California. These people wouldn’t take prisoners because prisoners needed food.

“They’re on top of the hill and still following,” Mikey said.

Every muscle in Tessa’s body tensed as she drove. One slip up could mean death, and if that happened, she hoped Brett and Alex drove on without her, but they wouldn’t.

They’d all die if one of them went off the road.

Tessa depressed the accelerator as Mikey kept looking over the back of his seat, and beside her, he struggled to keep his breaths even. “I’m sorry you got stuck with this.”

They couldn’t pull over now, but at least she could pull her weight with the driving. “It’s okay, Mikey. If we get to a place where we can turn off or hide, then we’ll be good, and we’ve dealt with worse.” But this time, no backup would come, and any town could offer the same death.

Alex seemed to have sped up ahead, because now they traveled at almost forty-five, approaching the danger speed for snow.

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