Charmed: A Masters and Mercenar - Lexi Blake Page 0,55
or she finished them off.
Someone was trying to kill him.
He put the pedal to the metal. “We’re not far from the main highway. We won’t be alone there.”
He had to keep them on the road. He hadn’t asked Nina if she was carrying. He wasn’t sure if it would matter at all if he lost control. They could be sitting ducks.
“Can you see a license plate?” Nina’s voice was perfectly calm. She twisted in her seat again, trying to look behind them.
He could barely see the road in front of him. He looked in the rearview, but the shark that was following them had gone underwater again. He knew the predator was there, waiting to take another bite. But he couldn’t see past the darkness. “It’s too dark.”
The truck was hit again, jerking him forward. He was already pushing eighty. The road on either side sloped off here. He had to be very careful or they would roll and end up like a turtle on its back.
He had to be careful or he could kill Nina. Someone was trying to kill him, and they could get Nina instead.
His fingers tightened around the steering wheel. Could he outrun the asshole? Or would more speed make things worse? He didn’t see a way to ditch the other truck until they made it to the main highway. There were no side roads to disappear down. There were no handy cops working the night shift who might see them go by and join in the chase.
They were alone, and Nina’s life was in his hands.
“Try to keep things steady,” Nina was saying, and she had something in her hand. “I’m going to see if I can get a picture of the car.”
“What?” He took his eyes off the road for a moment and watched in horror as she unbuckled her belt and lowered the back of her seat so she could twist around fully.
“I want to see if I can get a picture.” She sounded like nothing was wrong at all. “This phone has an excellent camera and it’s got a flash. It’s dark enough out here that the light might surprise the bugger. Get ready. He’s closing in again.”
JT braced as the truck was bumped again. “You need to be in your damn seatbelt.”
If he lost control, she could get thrown out the front windshield, and at these speeds she wouldn’t survive it. His heart threatened to pound out of his chest at the thought of what could happen to her.
“Just a sec.” She cursed under her breath as she was jostled again. Her shoulder hit him hard. “Sorry.”
He managed to stay in his lane. “I think you need to get back in your seat.”
She was still moving, her back now somehow to him. “How far did you say we are from the highway? I bet he’ll break off there. He won’t want to get caught on traffic cameras.”
“Two miles.” The way he was going it wouldn’t take more than a minute or two to get there. “This road flows into that one. It’s a yield. No hard stop.”
“Excellent. Just keep her on the road for me. I don’t know how he’s going to react to this.”
There was a flash of light and then he heard brakes squealing.
“Got him.” Nina was smiling as she popped back into her seat and brought it to its original position.
“Put the belt on,” he managed to bite out.
She did as he asked. “Fine, but I think we’re all right now. Even if he only stops for a moment, we’ll lose him from here. Now we see if I got a face. Or a plate.”
In his rearview, he saw red lights come on and then race away. “He made a U-turn. He’s driving away.”
“Excellent,” she said, looking down at her phone. “Tech might be able to get something off this.”
“That was dangerous as hell,” he said, starting to breathe again.
“It was fine,” she replied, not looking up from her phone. She’d started typing. “I’m in my belt now and the bad guy’s going the other way. You did a great job. You kept us on the road, and I might be able to figure out who that was.”
“We nearly died.”
“But we didn’t and now everything’s fine.” She finally looked up. “Ian’s still awake. He’s going to meet us at the hotel and hopefully he’ll have some news for us.”
Excellent. His night was far from over.
Chapter Eight
“The truck is stolen, but then we really should have expected that especially