Perfect Opposite by Zoya Tessi

Author:Zoya Tessi
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Zoya Tessi
Published: 2014-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

All of a sudden, Alex appeared again. I saw his legs enter my field of vision first and looked up to find his face. He wrapped his fingers around my hand and led me swiftly to the small iron gate which was our only way off the property.

The first sight that greeted me as we reached the gate was a body lying prone on the ground.

“I had to stun him.“ Alex gripped me tighter and led me down the street at a fast walking pace.

We’d gone around a fifty yards when he stopped in his tracks, flicked his wrist and arm in one fluid motion, and I heard the same whizzing noise in the air as once before. We started to run towards cars parked by the side of the road and as I passed behind one beat-up old blue Ford I saw that Alex’s knife had found its target. A black-red liquid was soaking into the man’s shirt and tricking down into cracks in the road, spreading out in a growing pattern of branches.

A sick feeling filled a hollow pit in my stomach as we approached a sleek black Jeep. I crouched down to throw up, but Alex had other ideas and lifted me off the ground, making sure I tumbled through the now open rear door.

“Stay down.” he ordered and closed the door behind me.

And then, everything went to hell.

First came the sound of shouting, and then gunshots. I curled up in a ball on the floor, between the seats and against the door, put my hands up over my head protectively and let out a scream, unable to bottle it up. A few split seconds later Alex started the engine with a loud revving sound and I found my whole body pressed against the seats behind me as the car accelerated fast.

Alex was driving like a man possessed and I rolled around like crazy in the back, banging my arms and my head painfully against the seats. I’d stopped screaming and my breathing became real shallow, as the world seemed to swirl around above my head. The gunshots had stopped, but it didn’t reflect on the motion of the car, which continued to swerve this way and that at God knows what speed.

Some time later, the car showed sign of slowing down as sharp corners reflected less in the movement of my body, before it finally came to a complete stop. Cautiously, I raised my head to the glass to see Alex standing out of the vehicle and scanning the large underground garage he’d driven us to, as though expecting Khalil’s men to appear at any moment. Glancing reflexively towards the entrance every couple of seconds, he took a large black bag from the passenger seat and opened my door, offering his hand to help me heave myself out. I leaned unsteadily against the door, lifted my head and studied the long lines of cars for myself.

“You OK?” he asked and rested his eyes on me for a moment.

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