Knox: The Complete Series: Second Edition by Cassia Leo

Author:Cassia Leo [Leo, Cassia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0174F4AC2
Publisher: Gloss Publishing LLC
Published: 2015-10-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I wake up surrounded by the smell of gasoline. My body’s moving, but it’s not me moving it. I look up and the bottom of Bruno’s square jaw is the first thing I see.

“Let me go!” I shout at him.

“This car’s gonna fucking blow!” he shouts back.

I look around and realize I’m still halfway inside the car. Then the smell of gasoline hits me again. Shit! I push Bruno off me and scramble out of the broken 370Z onto the grassy terrain. About forty yards south of us is an orange fireball giving off plumes of thick black smoke.

I crouch down to look at the passenger seat and my heart stops. “Where’s John?”

Bruno grabs my arm. “He’s gone! Come on. We gotta get the fuck away from this thing!”

I push Bruno off me again and glance back at the car one last time before I walk away.

“What do you mean, he’s gone? He was right fucking there!”

The explosion blows both of us forward and we land face down in another part of the field that smells like animal piss. I push up into a sitting position as something trickles down my neck. I swipe my hand across the back of my neck and head. There’s just enough moonlight out here for me to see the red glint of blood smeared across my fingers.

“What the fuck happened?”

“A fucking deer.”

“A deer?”

“A fucking deer,” Bruno repeats. “I slammed on the brakes and you must have swerved to avoid me and landed in this ditch. Jake and Al slammed into me. They didn’t make it.”

“Where’s Billy?”

“He went to look for John. The house is less than a quarter-mile from here. We think that’s where he went.”

“Alone?”

Bruno shrugs and I feel like punching him in the side of his enormous blockhead. He had to slam on his fucking brakes. Jake and Al are dead, and John is missing. This plan couldn’t be a bigger clusterfuck if I executed it with a group of first-graders.

“We have to go after them. They’re outnumbered and out-armed.”

Bruno and I load up on ammo and weapons then head down the ravine toward the open pasture. I ignore the woozy feeling I get every time I bend my neck forward. Once I’m done with this mission and Rebecca’s safe, I’ll have time to worry about that.

The darkness of night doesn’t provide enough cover once we get closer to the farm. From our hiding place behind a large oak tree on the eastern side of the property, I can see the entrance to the farm is fortified with a well-lit guard station. I can’t actually see the guard inside the station from here. For all I know, John may have taken him out. Or the other way around.

We could hop the wooden perimeter fence, but the goats are bedded down near a large building just thirty yards to the south. It’s summer and they’re enjoying the cool evening breeze while cuddling with their kids. If we wake even one of them, their brays will alert everyone.

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