Unbreakable by Cari Hunter

Author:Cari Hunter [Hunter, Cari]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781635559620
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2021-10-01T21:05:15+00:00

Elin. Sunday, 5:44 a.m.

It was getting harder for Elin to drive. Her right leg, usually her strongest, wasn’t cooperating, and her foot repeatedly slipped from the accelerator. Beside her, Grace was conscious but subdued, and Elin had no way to tell how serious an injury her jacket was concealing.

The Saturday night mayhem had yielded to a Sunday morning lull, clearing the roads and pavements. Elin followed signs to an industrial estate, circling the units until she found an unlit scrap of land, attached to nothing and well beyond the main thoroughfare. She switched off the engine and flicked the small overhead light on.

“Which bag am I looking in?” she said. There were two on the back seat, upended and speckled with dirt.

Grace took her right arm out of her jacket and started to peel the fabric from her left. It obviously hurt, and she paused to compose herself before she answered. “Try the orange one. The end pocket has dressings in it.”

Elin wrestled the pouch free and found her torch, directing its beam at Grace’s arm, where a deep laceration split the underside of her biceps. Removing the jacket had aggravated the wound, and it was bleeding heavily.

“‘Not too bad,’ eh?” Elin said.

Grace shrugged. “Well, I can’t really see it.”

“Here.” Elin took a photo on the burner phone and showed it to her. “It needs stitches. How the hell did you cut yourself there?”

Grace raised an eyebrow at the extent of the damage but didn’t seem keen to let Elin loose on it. “I did a swan dive out of the window.” She sighed as Elin continued to stare at her. “And got a bit stabbed.”

“A bit stabbed?” Elin made a show of enlarging the photo. “Is that like me getting a bit shot?”

“Yes, well, there’s no real harm done.” Grace passed her a padded bandage. “One of these and Steri-Strips will be fine. Just put them on good and tight.”

“Don’t trust me with a needle and thread, then?”

“Nope.”

“To be honest, I wouldn’t either. I once tried to sew the arm back onto Amelia’s favourite teddy and accidentally grafted it to its ear.” Elin opened a packet of gauze, cleaned away the worst of the blood, and set to work with the strips. It was difficult to be precise when her dexterity had been shot to hell, so she erred on the side of over-application instead. She took another photo. “Is that okay or does it need a few more?”

“Mm, it’s fine,” Grace said, but her eyes were half-lidded and she wasn’t really monitoring what Elin was doing. More than anything, that latter fact told Elin how badly Lowry’s assault had affected her.

Elin opened the bandage, fumbling with its strips and unravelling one length into the footwell. She swore beneath her breath, skirting her own private meltdown. For several interminable seconds after hearing the gunfire, she hadn’t known what she would find when she drove around the corner. She hadn’t planned to batter Lowry with the car. Now, seeing Grace so traumatised, she only wished she’d hit him harder.

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