Born to Fly by Michael Ferrari

Author:Michael Ferrari [Ferrari, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780375890963
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2009-01-05T13:00:00+00:00

Suddenly Kenji’s flare lit up the moonless sky, surprising the man in black. With all my might I instinctively bit down hard into the forearm he had wrapped around my neck, and I didn’t let go until I tasted blood.

The man screamed a strange word, “Scheisse!” I broke free and ran for my life.

At last I was able to scream out, “Kenji!”

Across the bay, I could see the beam of Kenji’s flashlight dancing through the grass as he ran to find me. I heard him calling out. “Bird?”

But I was busy running blindly through the high marsh weeds because I could hear the splash of pounding boot-steps gaining on me.

“Help, help!” I screamed between gasps. I tumbled into some thick brush, scraping my arms, and then somehow I managed to scramble up a tree. Within seconds, the man in black was below me. I had to cover my mouth with my hands and hold my breath to keep from screaming.

About thirty yards downshore, I could hear Kenji running full speed. Without breaking stride, he reached over his head and fired his last flare. It rocketed into the sky like a shooting star. When the flare burst overhead, it lit up the bay.

Immediately, the man in black ducked behind my tree. I could tell he sensed I was nearby. In a dark, out-of-breath whisper he called out, “You’re such a clever little girl, Bird.”

How on earth did he know my name? My left leg, which was supporting me on a branch, started to shake. I tried to steady it with my hands, but it kept right on shaking.

“I bet you’re clever enough to forget everything you saw tonight. That is, if you like your family alive.” He sniffed the air like a bloodhound and checked his watch. “I know you can hear me.”

Suddenly, my stupid quivering leg slipped free and snapped a branch.

“Well, well,” the killer snickered. Slowly, his gaze moved upward.

But before he saw me, he was blinded by a ghost-white beam of light from the bay. A fishing boat was approaching the shore.

“Who’s-a there?”

It was Mr. Ramponi, calling out from his boat! He shined his spotlight into the woods.

The man in black ducked down. He looked up at me and said, “I know you’ll keep our secret, for your family’s sake.” And then he slowly disappeared into the shadows of the woods.

Then Kenji’s voice cried out from ten yards away, “Bird? Bird!”

I slid down from the tree, barely able to stand on my wobbly legs.

Kenji burst through the darkness. “Are you okay, Bird? What happened?”

But before I could open my mouth, a deafening explosion ripped through the air, rattling our bones and sending shock waves through the earth beneath our feet. I grabbed on to Kenji and fell to the ground.

My ears were pounding and everything sounded muffled, like my head had been stuffed with cotton. Were we being bombed? I tried, but I couldn’t hear any plane engines overhead. I braced for more explosions, but they didn’t come.

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