Cranberry Lane by Lauren Lee

Author:Lauren Lee [Lee, Laurèn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

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Wayne

Serenity whimpered in the back seat and I couldn’t believe I’d gotten myself in this situation. The only way out of the trailer park had been blocked off by two cop cars and the respective officers. There’s no way we could get out of here unscathed… Unless, we made sure the cops wouldn’t be able to follow us out of the park.

Of course, they’d call for backup, but we’d be long gone by the time it arrived. We needed a distraction, though. We needed a diversion to lead the officers away from the willow tree currently shielding us.

And then, it hit me; I could use my phone with the vocal recordings to draw them in another direction. I whipped out my burner, wiped it as well as I could, picked a voice recording and tossed it out of the car window as far as I could throw.

“What are you doing?” Serenity demanded with urgency.

“It’s just a burner, don’t worry. I have a plan.”

She looked incredulously at me, but I had no time to explain. I held up a finger to my lips signaling to her I needed silence.

“Hey, you hear that?” One officer asked the other.

The officers appeared short and portly, much different than the city cops back in our neighborhood. It’d work in our favor if we ended up having to escape on foot; they’d never catch us.

“I think someone is over there,” the other responded. “Anyone out there? Are you okay?”

I’d chosen the sound of a baby crying. Who could ignore the sound of a wailing infant out in the middle of a field in a trailer park?

“I’m going to go look, back me up, okay?”

“Sure.”

The two officers stealthily jogged to the field, one led the search, the other prepared to take the flank if necessary.

“They’re gone!” Serenity gasped. “Go, go, go!”

I didn’t need to be told twice. I put the car in drive and hit the gas so hard, the wheels spun out and dirt launched into the air behind us. I sped so fast from under the willow tree I accidentally hit one of the patrol car’s side mirrors.

Oops.

“Hurry! They’re running back to their cars!”

I tossed a gun back to Serenity and she screeched at the sight of the hard, cool metal.

“Shoot the tires!” I ordered.

“What?” she screamed back.

“Shoot the goddamned tires so they can’t chase us!” I bellowed.

“I, I, I’ve never used one before.”

“It’s not hard, just aim and shoot!”

I could see her hands visibly shaking, but she rolled down her window anyway. She stuck her head outside the car like a retriever on a warm summer’s day and I used my left hand to cover my ear.

Two shots rang out: one missed completely, and I heard the other hit one of the cars with a distinct PING.

“Did you hit the tires?”

“I don’t know!” she cried. “I don’t think so!”

“Try again. Keep it steady.”

“Okay,” she quivered.

Three more shots. The sirens sounded behind us, but once I looked in the rear-view mirror, I knew they wouldn’t be following us.

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