I SHUT MY EYES AS BITS of glass rained down on me, pricking at my skin. My heart raced, my mind scrambling to figure out what had happened. What could possibly have hit the windshield with enough force to break it—
And oh God, where was the venomous snake whose bite had already killed several people?
I opened my eyes in panic, frantic to lift my legs up onto my seat. Surveying the inside of the car for a dangerous animal that we had no antivenom for, because the species had never been captured in this area before—
It took a few adrenaline-filled seconds, during which I couldn’t spot any reptilian body ready to lunge at me or Gabriela, before I realized the snake wasn’t inside the car with us. But then...where was it?
A light touch on my shoulder had me turning to my colleague. I follow
