Traceless by Meli Raine

Author:Meli Raine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meli Raine

Chapter 19

Callum

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“DROP IT!” he shouts.

“YOU DROP IT!”

“BOTH OF YOU DROP IT!” Kina shrieks, slamming into the metal fence, then bouncing back with a cry of pain. She must have touched an electrified portion of it, the section meant to dissuade.

But not kill.

“KINA! STAY WHERE YOU ARE!” I yell, one eye on McDuff. But she’s seen the hole under the fence, and she’s up and moving toward it fast.

Wait.

Brother.

Did she say brother?

“WYATT!” McDuff shouts just before a gunshot goes off, making him duck.

“STOP SHOOTING!” Kina runs at me, lunging for my arm.

“I'M NOT!”

Pancaking myself on top of her, we go flat, the shot coming from the compound. So much for thinking any of this wasn't being tracked.

The sound of machinery starting up, a flood of activity in the distance near the buildings in the compound, makes me roll off Kina and grab her shirt, pulling her behind a tree. I see McDuff–my brother? Are you kidding me?–motion toward his shed.

A quick look shows a four wheeler big enough to get us all out of here.

My phone is going nuts in my pocket. Kina's cheek has a long, deep scratch. Blood drips down her face in a maddening arc that makes it look like someone slashed her throat.

She breaks for it first, moving fast, like a chipmunk on the run. I follow, because no way in hell am I letting her be alone with that guy.

My brother?

There has to be a mistake. Kina must be wrong.

We press our backs against the wall, breathing hard, McDuff's arm against my arm, knee brushing Kina's leg. He hands Kina a gun.

A gun.

My head explodes as he calmly says, “You two cover me. I'll drive.”

“We’re not leaving with you!” I hiss, getting in his face, ready to snap his throat.

“Why not?”

“You're insane. I don't even know who you are.”

“I'm Sean. Your brother. Kina listened to the calls, she’s read the encrypted files.”

“You what?”

“I was trying to tell you!” Kina interrupts. Gunfire has stopped, but I hear vehicle engines in the distance.

The buzzing from my phone stops abruptly.

“Save the arguing for later,” McDuff snaps. “Let's get out of here.”

And with that, he jumps on the four wheeler.

Kina points her gun toward the fence, toward our side, breaking my heart.

“You can't do this,” I tell her.

“I am doing this. No one can see me. The foliage covers what I'm doing. Callum,” she pleads. “Listen to him. Go with him.”

“You go first.”

“I'm not going. I’ve covering for you.”

“WHAT?”

“COME ON!” McDuff screams.

“I can't leave the babies.”

“If you don't go, I don't go, Kina. You know damn well what they'll do to you if you go back there without me. They'll torture you for information.”

“I know. I accept it. You have to go.”

Grabbing her around the waist and dragging her is my only option.

So I do it.

“PUT ME DOWN!” she rasps, clawed fingers digging into my shoulders, my waist, my ass, her power stronger than I imagined but not strong enough. It takes effort to tame her, a cloud of moving hair in my face, one strand catching in my eye, making it water.

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