The Seventh Seed by Allison Maruska

Author:Allison Maruska
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-10-19T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

As Jonah drove towards the sun peeking above the eastern horizon, Liz squinted at the bright sunlight and stretched her shoulders the best she could with her hands cuffed behind her. “When can we get these things off?” The only things in sight were trees and desert, broken only by the unbending road—no buildings or other obvious places to get lock picking tools. Her irritation grew. Why hadn’t Jonah bought anything useful at the same time he bought pants to replace Charlie’s blood-stained and ripped up pair?

“We might not be able to until we get back to Robert.” Jonah changed lanes and accelerated. Since they’d left several hours earlier, he’d stopped only once, when the car needed gas. “I don’t want to buy anything that might trigger a search. There are cameras everywhere. A picking kit or even bobby pins could do it.” He put on his sunglasses.

“Where are we meeting Robert?”

“Missouri.”

“And where are we now?”

“Middle of New Mexico.”

After some quick math, Liz guessed she’d be stuck in the things for at least the next twelve hours. Her shoulders ached at the thought.

Charlie had lapsed in and out of consciousness through the night. He sat between Liz and Mattson in the back seat, and more than once he’d rested his head on her. She’d promptly shoved him over to his nephew. Now awake, he seemed more lucid than he had since they left.

She took the opportunity to ask the question that had nagged her since he’d spoken to her back at the station. “What can we do about that thing in your hand?”

Charlie shrugged.

“What thing?” Javier twisted around in the passenger seat.

“There’s a tracker implanted in the back of his hand. It’s how the cops found us.”

“Are you kidding me?” Javier huffed. “Is it still active?”

Tilting his head to the side, Charlie moaned and stretched. “I don’t know. Probably.”

Javier’s eyes widened as he looked around the car. “Does anyone else here see a problem with that?”

Charlie shook his head. “As long as we’re moving they won’t do anything.”

“How can you be sure?”

“Procedure. They don’t activate backup until the tracker is still for half an hour and the cop doesn’t check in and can’t be reached. Otherwise they’re tracking thousands of moving officials at once, twenty-four seven.”

“But you’re a fugitive! No way they’ll wait. They wouldn’t if they knew a cop was kidnapped, would they?” Javier flopped back into the seat. “Jonah, stop the car.”

Liz sat up straighter. “What are you doing?” Sure, the tracker was a problem, but she’d figured they’d leave Charlie in a hospital somewhere and not have to worry about it. He’d likely end up in custody again, but at least he had a chance at getting treatment for the gunshot wound that way.

“We can’t keep him with us. The cops will be after him. They won’t follow procedure.”

“Javier,” Liz leaned forward, “We can’t leave him in the middle of nowhere.”

“Why not? They’ll come pick him up in an hour. He said so himself.”

“But he knows where we’re going.

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