me.
He stopped struggling instantly and I pulled back, relieving him of his weapon as I got to my feet, finding Kyan holding onto the other soldier with a pistol pointed at his head too.
"You're going to make sure we walk out of here," Saint snarled, indicating for me to take hold of the soldier pinned beneath me and I jerked his arms behind him, holding them tightly as the taste of blood coated my tongue from my busted lip.
"You can't seriously believe you'll escape this place?" the soldier coughed out.
"I can and we will," Saint assured him. "You're the ones who are delusional if you honestly believe that we would just allow you to lock us up in some lab to experiment on."
"I'm sure it isn't like that," said the soldier Kyan was restraining. "They just want to question you about your antibodies."
"Thanks, but no thanks," Blake said, stooping down to take the unconscious soldier's weapons.
"Let's go," Saint added, ending this pointless discussion.
I couldn't help but glance over at the closest watchtower as we stepped out into the open space before the fence and we all clustered together, forcing the soldiers to walk between us and it. If anyone up there spotted us, they'd have to shoot their own men to stop us and I knew there was no chance of them doing that.
We jogged across the muddy ground to the fence, the soldiers giving in to the inevitable as we made them run with us and my heart was thundering by the time we reached the metal wire panels which penned us in.
Fireworks continued to explode overhead and as I turned to look to our left, I spotted them shooting out of an enormous fire that was blazing in the trees just outside the fence at the edge of the trees.
The blast of a car horn beeping twice drew my attention back to the thick trees ahead of us and my heart soared as I spotted two people sitting in a huge black Jeep Wrangler, waiting for us. Tatum's long, golden hair was unmistakable even from this distance and a mixture of excitement and fear filled me at the sight of her here. I just wanted to bundle her up and get her the hell away from this place, which meant we needed to hurry the hell up.
Blake managed to shove the metal fence hard enough to create a gap in it between two of the metal panels just as the blaring spotlight from the watchtower swung around to us. I ducked down behind the soldier I still held, making sure there was no chance of them getting a clear shot at me.
"Stop!" a voice roared from the tower, but there was no fucking chance of that.
"Like fuck we will!" Kyan yelled back as he ducked through the gap in the fence, dragging his human shield with him to protect him and Blake.
The soldier I was holding tried to jerk free of my grip, but Saint took hold of him too, forcing him to follow us as we awkwardly shifted through the gap in the fence.
One of the guards in the tower fired a shot into the ground a few meters from us in warning as he continued to yell at us to stop and my heart leapt for a moment before we started running.
More shots were fired and lumps of grass sprayed into the air, but I ignored them, keeping the soldier between us and his friends as we raced into the safety of the trees and none of them came anywhere close to hitting us.
Tatum scrambled over her seat and flung the back door of the car open as we raced for it, a man's wild laughter sailing to us over the sounds of gunshots and fireworks and Blake dove into the car while Kyan kept hold of his soldier.
Niall climbed into the driver’s seat and Tatum clambered into the front passenger seat to make room for us as Blake scooted right over in the back.
I stopped beside Kyan, letting Saint jump in before we shoved the soldiers away and leapt in too.
The wheels spun in the dirt as Niall hit the gas and I half fell into the footwell as Kyan sprawled on top of Blake and Saint.
We bounced over the rough ground and I smacked my head on the side of the door before managing to scramble upright and look out at the dark forest speeding by outside.
"Hold onto your asses boys!" Niall yelled. "We're