Mating With the Pride by Lilly Wilder

Author:Lilly Wilder [Wilder, Lilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hewlett-Packard Company
Published: 2019-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I closed my eyes moments before the impact. The rattling of the chain link fence resisted but it finally gave in to a greater force. I was driving with one hand and shielding my face with the other in case of flying debris hitting the windshield.

I heard how the steel of the fence scratched and drove into the metal surface of the car. It was like nails down a chalkboard. I was cringing. I hazarded a glance to see nothing but flames and smoke in front of me. I hadn’t thought it through and had made a hasty decision on the facts at hand.

Suddenly, I saw their terrified eyes looking at me through the smoke and I barely had enough time to slam down onto the brakes. I was lucky to be wearing a seatbelt, without it, I would’ve been propelled through the windshield to certain injury.

Rolling down my window and covering my mouth with my sleeve was necessary, to prevent suffocating from the black smoke billowing inside.

“I’m not going to wait all day. Get in and let’s get out of here while we still have a chance,” I encouraged, with them in human form scrambling for the car doors.

Niles jumped into the back seat while Wyatt joined me in the front. He was white as a ghost. The shock was still prevalent and his fingers were shaking on the dashboard. The look in his eyes confirmed my suspicion about fire being their weakness.

A cracking sound caught my attention and I barely registered where it was coming from.

I jumped when this huge beam, on fire, landed on the hood of the car. I could still drive it, the engine was still running. The beam made it necessary to put the car into reverse. It struggled against the weight of the beam until, finally, it rolled and fell off, taking the fender with it. Thankfully, the car had no sentimental value but I’m sure the owner we had taken it from was going to have a few curse words when he woke up in the morning.

There was a scream caught in my throat but there was no time to panic when every second counted.

The car went back through the same way it had come in, with the tires getting caught in the mud, spinning relentlessly, making it fly everywhere. The saving grace was the mud was obscuring them from getting a bead on our location. However, it didn’t stop them from firing wildly, with bullets peppering the windshield with pockmarks.

They must’ve hit the radiator because it began to steam. I spun the wheel and pulled on the emergency brake. It brought the car around in a 180° turn. The maneuver displaced the car from the mud and I was able to get some traction on the way to the road.

It fishtailed in the street leaving behind a trail of mud for them to follow. I figured it wasn’t over and my suspicions were confirmed when I looked into the rearview mirror to see headlights bearing down on us.

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