TWENTY-FOUR
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When the shooting stopped and the dust began to settle, Kadie relaxed enough to open her squeezed-tight eyes. She almost couldn’t breathe having never seen so much blood or so many lifeless people lying in the dirt.
But Tuck and Zara didn’t blink. Tuck was already at the limo, searching the trunk and then the interior. Zara made a beeline to help him after giving Kadie a shove towards their truck. “Get in there, Dove,” Zara called back. “Get the engine going.”
Kadie wanted to help, but she didn’t know quite what had happened. Shock still slowed her down. Zara slammed the front door of the limo and the sound shook Kadie from her daze enough that she could stumble towards the truck. Clambering inside, she somehow got the truck running, though it took her quite a few
