Beyond the Reflection's Edge by Davis Bryan

Author:Davis, Bryan [Davis, Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-05-08T06:00:00+00:00

10

WARP SPEED

As the speedometer pushed past eighty, Kelly set a hand on the dashboard. “This isn’t a back road, Nathan. If a state trooper clocks you, it’ll take a lot longer than three hours to get there.”

“Good point.” Easing up on the accelerator, he glanced at the mirror again. “Someone’s following us. As soon as I took off, he did, too, and now he’s slowing down again.”

Kelly swung around and stared out the back. “Could it be Dr. Gordon?”

“Looks like his Town Car. I saw it at the school.”

She swiveled back and tightened her seatbelt. “Then floor it. Now we want a cop to catch us.”

Daryl flopped back in her seat. “All right!” she said, slapping her thighs. “It’s adventure time!”

When the digits read ninety-one, Nathan reached toward the back. “Can you find my mirror? It’s in my backpack.”

Daryl pushed his hand away. “Keep your eyes on the road. I’ll get it.” After jerking it out, she held it on her lap. “What do you want me to do with it?”

“Just look into it. Use it like a rearview mirror and tell me what you see.”

She held the mirror in front of her face. “Ew! I’m a mess!”

As the speedometer passed one hundred, the engine whined and rattled loudly. Nathan turned up the radio and glanced at her through his own rearview mirror. “Watch the road. Not your face.”

“I can do both.” Daryl pushed her hair back and primped her curly red bangs. “Nothing yet.”

Kelly looked at the speedometer, her grip on her armrest tensing along with her voice. “I can’t believe you’re going this fast.”

“Once in Israel, Clara and I did a hundred and ten on motor-cycles, running from six guys with Uzis in the back of a pickup. She told me, ‘When a life’s in danger, there is no speed limit.’”

Nathan weaved around cars, alternately braking and accelerating again as he changed lanes. After a few minutes, Daryl called out, her voice calm. “What am I supposed to be looking for?”

Keeping his focus ahead, he reached back. “Give it to me!” He jerked it forward and propped it on the dashboard.

“I’ll hold it for you,” Kelly said, reaching to secure it.

Constantly glancing around — from the road ahead, to the normal rearview, to his father’s mirror — he continued his mad dash, banking left, then right, then back again. A memory flashed. This was his nightmare! How could that be?

The Lincoln closed in, following in his wake like a skier behind a boat, matching swerve after swerve.

“Kick it, Nathan!” Daryl shouted. “You have the smaller car. Take it somewhere he can’t follow!”

Up ahead, a conversion van and a gasoline tanker drove side by side, blocking the way. Nathan pressed the brake and cut the wheel hard to the right. Now riding the shoulder, he floored it again. As the driver’s side mirror barely brushed by the tanker’s running board, two of the Camry’s tires rumbled on the grass, shaking the three passengers.

“Nathan!” Kelly thrust out her finger. “A

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