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The truck swung to the left, shunting the FAV off the highway onto the opposite side of the road. She turned out of the path of an oncoming fruit truck and slid in behind Kovac’s military transporter.
Flooring the pedal, Rios accelerated along the right-hand side, only to take another hit. The buggy hit the hard shoulder, carpeted thick with windswept sand. She wrestled with the steering as the buggy slid sideways at sixty, snaking back onto the highway.
The Mexican spat out a mouthful of dust and rubbed the grit from her eye.
‘f**k this,’ she said, braking as the truck swerved again.
Dropping back once again, Rios pulled left and took a wide arc as she sped ahead of the truck.
With a sharp turn of the wheel and using her mirrors as a gauge, the buggy slid back in,. Rios dabbed th
