The Road to Sampson's Quarry by Sophie Tucker

Author:Sophie Tucker [Tucker, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lirios Publishing
Published: 2017-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

7

“Hey,” Lucas said. “I think you can slow down a bit now.”

Haley shook her head. “No, we have to keep going.”

“I am not saying that we should stop.” Lucas leaned toward her, his voice soothing. “Haley, you need to slow down. These roads weren’t really made for highway speeds.”

Haley looked down at the speedometer without really seeing the gauge at all, fear and panic clouding her mind to the point that nothing but driving made sense to her. “But…”

“No, we need to slow down.” Lucas rested his hand lightly on her shoulder. “Haley, honey, we won’t get anywhere if we crash into a tree.”

Lucas’s words finally penetrated the haze in her mind. It was Lucas using the silly name, Haley Honey, that Bri had given her in grade school that had halted the flight or fight instinct. She eased her foot off the gas pedal and the car began to slow. She continued to drive down the single lane road, no idea where it would take them but still so wholly intent on putting distance between them and the driver of the black car that she didn’t much care. The wind had picked up and she hoped they could get somewhere safe before the downpour that the store clerk had mentioned started.

"Any sign of the other car?"

Lucas turned in his seat to look out the back window again. "Not yet. It’s possible that he would simply backtrack to follow us, or he could try to find another exit coming up on the highway to cut us off. For all I know, he could have kept on driving thinking that we had called the police."

"I'm just so confused about what is going on. Why is he coming after us in the first place?" Haley asked the question, full well knowing that Lucas wouldn’t know the answer.

"I think the guy is just crazy. There may be no reason for him to be coming after us. He might be schizophrenic or having flashbacks from Vietnam. I don’t know." He turned back to the front as they approached the intersection of another narrow road.

Haley slowed down. "Should we turn here or keep going? What do you think?"

"Turn here," Lucas said, pointing away from the highway. "I figure our best bet is getting as far away from the highway as we can. If he is looking for us, he won't know which way we've gone and it will take him that much longer to track us down."

"I like that idea," Haley said turning down the road. "I want as little to do with that guy as possible."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure he does not want to ask us to brunch."

Haley tried not to think of all the possibilities of what might happen to them if the guy actually caught up with them. "I think I'll pass on all of the above."

"Yeah, me too." Lucas looked behind them again and then picked up the GPS.

"Any idea on where we are?" Haley asked. They were still driving into the mountains, forests of tall pine trees surrounding them.

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