Chapter 31
He passed no other cars on his way out of town. Evelyn Kirkwood’s car still blocked the road.
He pushed her into the passenger’s seat and drove it around Clara’s, blocking the road again from the other side. Before getting out, he pulled the keys from the ignition and threw them as hard as he could across the dry bed of Canyon Creek.
Grim removed his shirt, wiped the sweat from his face, and unscrewed the gas cap.
Michele’s mother faced him, slumped against the passenger side door. Watched him with her one remaining eye and no face.
He ripped a long strip from his shirt and fed it into the gas tank, then used the matches in his pocket to light it.
That ought to slow them down, Grim thought as he climbed into Clara’s car and left Clearwater behind.
Grim met a State Patr
