Page 123 of The Forbidden Note

He’s so effortlessly attractive. It’s annoying.

I drag my eyes away from his wet lips to the railways, which are the only things preventing us from plummeting off the rocky cliffs. “What are his motivations?”

“Easy. He’s evil, narcissistic, and gets off on other people’s…” Zane glances in the rearview mirror and suddenly clams up.

“What?”

“There’s a car…”

Before he can finish, something rams into the back of our vehicle. Metal crashes into metal and I hear the sound of tires squealing on the road. Our vehicle lurches, colliding into the metal railway.

I scream.

Finn’s tablet tumbles out of his hands.

Zane shoots an arm out to protect me. It’s an almost instinctual act because his eyes are on the rearview mirror and he’s fighting to correct the car. “What the hell?”

Our attacker won’t let up.

The scream of steel on metal fills the night air.

As our car keeps moving against the railway, metal sparks explode.

There’s a black car with heavily-tinted windows ramming us from behind. It’s too dark to tell who’s in the driver’s seat.

“Zane, go faster,” Finn barks.

“I’m trying,” Zane grits out. He slams his foot on the gas and the car zooms forward.

But that only gives our pursuer another chance to ram into us again.

Boom!

Glass shatters.

Metal crunches.

My body lurches forward and the seatbelt cuts painfully into my chest.

“Zane!” I scream, pointing at a break in the railway up ahead.

The barrier is going to run out.

If we keep going like this, the black car will push us right off the mountain and into the inky darkness below.

“Hold on,” Zane growls. Eyes narrowed, he pushes his foot harder on the gas.

I watch the speedometer climb.

We get closer and closer to the edge of the mountain.

“Zane, watch out!” I yell again.

My fingers dig into my seatbelt.

This is it.

We’re going to die.

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