Need for Speed by Brian Kelleher

Author:Brian Kelleher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

Part Five

Twelve

THE SUPER MUSTANG crossed the George Washington Bridge less than twenty minutes later.

What was usually a forty-five-minute drive down from Mount Kisco to Manhattan had been done in half that time by the awesome Shelby GT.

Tobey was settled in behind the wheel, still buzzing with the twin excitements of driving this car again and being out of the clink. The Mustang had not lost any of its power or its balls. He was casually blowing by any slower traffic he encountered, which was actually all of it. Or, if anything posed any kind of impediment to him, he simply cut around it.

This was literally life in the fast lane. He’d averaged 120 mph since leaving Mount Kisco, and hit 130 as soon as they crossed the border into New Jersey.

He’d had little conversation with Julia so far, mostly because she’d been too busy holding on for dear life. But once they’d reached the New Jersey Turnpike, Tobey finally turned to her and said, “Okay, so you’ve never been a right-seater before.”

She gave him a quick, icy glare.

“Don’t worry,” she replied over the roar of the Mustang’s mighty engine. “I’ll learn. And if you see something I’m doing wrong, please just point it out.”

Tobey laughed. “Well, for one thing, you’re wearing high heels,” he said.

She just shook her head.

“We call them ‘heels’ these days,” she said. “And I have a change of shoes in my overnight bag.”

“Then I suggest you do something about that,” Tobey said.

Julia reached into her overnight bag, retrieved some more sensible shoes, and changed them with the heels.

“There,” she said. “Anything else ‘right-seaters’ are meant to do?”

Tobey replied tartly, “How about ‘be quiet’?”

Julia continued glaring at him. “Like a mouse, you mean?”

“Yeah, like a dead mouse,” Tobey said.

She began to say something, but stopped. He stared straight ahead, knowing that one might have cut a little too deep.

A chilly silence enveloped the car, and it stayed that way for a long time.

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