Chapter 23:
Not because I'm scared.
Because I've never felt anything like this in my whole life.
The wind hits my face so hard my eyes water and my hair's whipping out behind me and the road's a black ribbon in the dark. Kael leans the bike into a curve and my stomach drops and I scream again — a real scream, a wild one, the kind that comes up out of you before your brain gets a vote.
I can feel him laughing.
His back's shaking against my chest and I can feel it through his suit jacket, and I hit him on the shoulder and he laughs harder.
"You're insane!" I yell into his back.
He turns his head. "What?"
"YOU'RE INSANE!"
"Can't hear you!"
And then he opens the throttle again and I stop talking.
The town's behind us. The trees are going by so fast they're a wall. The road climbs —
