The Operator by Kim Harrison

Author:Kim Harrison [Harrison, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781501149917
Google: qTKzCwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1501149911
Barnesnoble: 1501149911
Goodreads: 28129423
Publisher: Piatkus
Published: 2016-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY-ONE

“Whoa, look at that,” the driver said, and Peri lurched, catching her balance as the van holding Jack swerved. They were back outside WEFT. The only people who would know they were rewriting time were she, Allen, and Jack. Her pulse hammered as her plan held firm. She was going to manipulate Michael into killing Bill. She had a week to do it if she could slip WEFT and reach LB.

Her eyes went to Allen, his hand still in hers, cold from that ice pack. “Take care of yourself,” he said, and then he bellowed, throwing himself at Steiner standing in the aisle.

The man cried out in shock as he went down, falling in between the two front seats.

She moved, her foot slamming into the rising guard to send him flailing back to smack his head against the wall of the van. Peri lurched into him, using her elbow to send him crashing back again, this time falling unconscious.

“Peri!” Harmony exclaimed, wide-eyed as she tried to stand, falling when the van swerved wildly.

Peri’s hand was already on the guard’s Glock, and she ripped it from his slack fingers. “Steiner knows. If I go behind those walls, I’m never coming out.”

“We’re in a draft?” Harmony said, and then she became angry. “It wasn’t me. I didn’t tell him.”

“Look out!” the driver shouted, and Peri fell as the van swerved to avoid crashing into the vehicle ahead of them. Pain lanced through her knee as she hit the floor, and she ignored it. Her grip tightened on the Glock, refusing to let go even as the van lurched to a stop. Eyes wide, she watched out the front window as Jack’s van careened into one of the trees strategically placed to line the drive to the gate. Muted gunfire sounded from inside it, and their driver reached for his sidearm.

“Firefight!” the driver said, reaching for the door even as he turned to look behind him for permission to leave, his eyes widening as he saw the guard out cold and Steiner down under Allen. He scrambled to bring his weapon to bear, then froze as his buddy in the front seat already had, Peri’s Glock pointed at his head.

“Not happening,” Peri said, still on the floor, and she shot them both in the arm.

The twin pops and kicks jolted her. Adrenaline was a sweet drug, and she rolled, knee throbbing, to the sliding side door. As the men in the front howled, she opened the door and slid to the ground. Guards were coming out of the nearby gatehouse, and they all had weapons.

“Peri!”

She turned at Allen’s demanding call, and he threw a phone at her. She caught it, feeling the warmth of the guard he’d taken it from.

“Call me,” he mouthed, pantomiming a phone with his thumb and pinky, and then he went down under the two guards she’d shot in the arm. “Go!”

Grimacing, she ran for the surrounding trees, her knee throbbing as she fired into the air to keep everyone where they were.

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