The Guardian (The Gifted Book 1) by C. L. McCourt

Author:C. L. McCourt [McCourt, C. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2013-03-26T23:00:00+00:00

30

Chase

Daen arrived at the music store before Randell and Rhea. They should have been there already, he thought. They had left the coffee shop before he did. In fact, he’d half expected to see them on the street, but he hadn't.

Now he stood at the window, watching, waiting, wondering where they were. He reached for his cell phone and flipped it open. Just before he pressed Randell's speed-dial number, a large group of people began to pile into the store.

Daen watched, expecting to see Randell and Rhea mixed in with the group. He didn't watch for long. From the corner of his eye, he saw movement in the street. He turned his head to look, just in time to see Randell pulling Rhea across the street at a full run. He pulled her around the next corner, heading in the direction of campus.

Reflexively, he moved towards the door, planning his exit and his pursuit, wondering what was wrong. He had barely moved when he saw the problem. Daen launched himself for the door, only to be blocked by the throng of slow moving, yammering teenagers, all bunched in the doorway.

He tried to gently push his way through the crowd, not wanting to be forceful and draw any more attention to himself than he already was. "Excuse me. Excuse me. Pardon me."

By the time he broke free from the crowd, Randell, Rhea, and their pursuers were out of sight. He took off at full speed in the direction he'd last seen them. As he rounded the corner, he scanned the walk in front of him and then the surrounding area. They seemed to have disappeared.

He stopped and focused his search, extending his scan further down the road and to the edge of the student center. Had they gone into the center? Had they gone past it?

Two young women were approaching, oblivious to his dismay. He asked, "Did you see a man and a woman run by you?"

One of the women pointed behind her. "They ran that way."

"Did they go into the student center?"

The other woman shook her head. "I think they went past it, to the right."

"Were two men following them?"

They both nodded. "One almost knocked me off my feet," one told him.

Daen took off as he shouted, "Thanks."

~~~

Rhea was struggling to keep up. She was in shape and she ran regularly, but nothing like this and certainly not this fast. Breathing heavily, barely able to speak, she wheezed out, "We need a place to hide."

Randell looked over his shoulder to see the men still in pursuit. He needed a building with multiple exits; someplace they could hide but have multiple ways to get away undetected. His first thought was the library, but then they would be trapped.

He scanned ahead and found his answer; the building with the largest lecture halls on campus, multiple rooms, halls, floors, and doors. As they got closer, a group of students exited the corner doors in front of them.

Randell pulled Rhea into and through the crowd and then ducked to the right and pulled her into the stairwell.

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