Page 59 of Married to the SEAL
“Get on the train,” he said.
“What? No. Where is Matteo?”
Talia pulled a gun out of his jacket. “Get on the train if you ever want to see your baby again.”
She held her breath, suddenly shaking. “Please. Tell me where he is. I’ll give you anything you want.”
“I want you to get on that goddamn train!”
She turned and got on. Talia stood in the doorway, the weapon trained on her.
“Where is Nico?”
He ignored her.
“I’ll give you safe passage out of the country. Money. Anything.”
Talia laughed. “I don’t want anything from you.”
A loud boom resonated through the underground tunnel and she put a hand on either side of her seat, bracing herself against the vibrations. “What was that?”
“That, my dear, is my cue.” He stepped back and the door to the subway car closed.
She shot out of her seat and banged on the glass. “Wait! What’s going on? What’s happening?” She continued to bang on the glass as the car kept moving.
The train pulled out of the station, leaving Talia behind and Grace’s train car hurtling forward. She ran car by car to the engine. There had to be a conductor, someone who could let her off this thing, but when she reached the front car, she found it completely empty.
She was alone.
A light up ahead on the tracks, and she squinted to make it out. What was so bright? It almost looked like… daylight.
Her eyes widened as her mind made sense out of what she was seeing. The tunnel was open to the outdoors, the tracks blocked and obstructed.
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Cowboy shinedhis light back toward South Street Station. “That was a bomb. A big fucking bomb.”
They’d heard the train coming, felt the wind as it moved down the tunnel, then the explosion. They were only a quarter mile or so out of the station when it happened and it felt like the earth was splitting in two.
“That was more than a few blocks of C4,” said Austin.
“You’re right,” said Cowboy. “More like a train full of dynamite.”
“So that’s it, then,” said Hawk. “Bomb detonated, party over.”
Cowboy scratched his head. “I guess so, but we’re not going to get out that way, so let’s keep walking to the next station. I hope Grace’s kid is okay.”
Hawk stopped walking. “Wait. Do you feel that?”
Wind, coming toward them. “There’s a train coming this way.”
“It’s going to run right into the rubble at South Street Station.”
“Fuck. How do we stop a train?” asked Cowboy.
“The third rail gives it electricity,” said Austin. “You have to find some way to short it out.”
“That giant fucking explosion didn’t short it out?” yelled Cowboy.
