LIKE.
BEFORE.
“Which way is he heading?” Elizabeth asked.
Ivan had bad news for her.
“To where they dumped you and the mountain of skulls,” he offered.
Yeah, that wasn’t good.
Only, they had a problem. If they ran fast, behind them, they risked being heard. Now, they had to outthink them.
“We’ve got to reroute,” she said. “We have to beat them to that location.”
Uriel hated to be the Debby Downer, but…
“And if we’re wrong?”
She was to the point.
“Then, we have a double funeral on our hands and a bunch of our family members ready to be angry with five of us.”
Neither of those situations worked for them.
At.
All.
So, they’d better not fuck this up.
The whole time, Elizabeth was running the possibilities through her head.
She honestly had no idea who this could be. There were too many suspects and not enough forensics to have her back.
And that was problematic.
For Lance and Wyler.
And their longevity on Earth.
* * *The Blackhawk Family* * *
Walking Through
The Woods
Wyler was stalling.
He knew Elizabeth was coming, and he knew that she’d be tracking him. Unfortunately, the assholes had broken his phone, and tossed it in the woods.
Honestly, he hoped that Ivan was on his game, or he was screwed.
Why?
They hadn’t seen this one coming.
And somehow, Wyler was beginning to believe that neither did Elizabeth.