For a second, just one second, I felt a terrible, impossible hope.
Maybe we could lose them. Maybe—
Then headlights flared in the distance ahead, and my whole body went cold.
Another vehicle.
Black.
Blocking the road.
My stomach dropped straight through the floor.
“There,” I whispered.
Frank’s expression didn’t change, but his jaw hardened. “I know.”
The RV slowed just enough to avoid a collision, then veered sharply into a side track barely wide enough for us to squeeze through. The vehicle lurched hard. I was thrown into Ellen’s shoulder, and she braced me automatically. She was oddly stable and stronger than I anticipated for her size.
The black SUV at the front didn’t pursue immediately.
It was too big for the trail, and Frank had known that.
But of course, he had; he had l
