Chapter 9 - The Escape
He caught his wife as she stumbled, a bullet having grazed her shoulder, staining her torn coat with deep red. Ignoring the stinging pain in his own arm from flying concrete splinters, he carried her up the metal stairs as shouting guards rushed to pursue them. They burst out into the rain-slicked courtyard just as Sophia was screaming from inside the SUV, watching men surround the vehicle.
He loaded his wife into the back seat beside Sophia, jumped into the driver's seat, and threw the car into reverse. He smashed through the secondary wooden gates, tires spinning and burning rubber on the wet pavement. They tore out onto the main highway, disappearing into the thick curtain of night rain, leaving the flashing lights of the syndicate behind them for now.
