Michaela
I knew I was exposed. It was already too late for me.
But I fought down the horror and tried to think, because no matter what happened to me, I couldn’t lead them back to Gabriel.
I turned a corner in the opposite direction of a motel and waved down a cab. “I need to get to the – the airport,” I blurted, the most distant plausible destination I could think of. “But, um, it’s okay if you take the long way around.” I needed as much time as possible to think.
The cabbie frowned at me in suspicion, but I shoved a handful of cash through the window at him and clambered into the back seat. As he drove away, I saw the black car that had been tailing me follow after us.
“Um, actually, can you go as fast as you can?”
“Lady, you want me to go the long way round and as fast as I
