She hands me my fake ID, a wad of cash and a black kids size backpack with the grenades inside.
“The address you wanted is on this piece of paper. Memorize it if you can. I am going to trip the lights in ten minutes you would have at least five to get out of here. Good luck Mia.”
I nod, take the thick heavy rope and begin tying it around the window.
My climb down is uneventful apart from my throbbing back and burning hands. The night sky is alight with stars flickering across as the lights around the house get cut off.
The air is cold and green with the amount of trees in the garden, I can smell the familiar smell of the outdoors.
I hear the sounds of footfalls. It is my cue and I take it.
I sneak around the small hedge trees as I spot two of the guards in the front of me armed to the knees in weapons.
My back is burning as I feel some of the blood drip down my left side, over my waist.
When the men rush past me I keep my knees down and run to the other tree.
I am still a long way from the gate and three guards left to fight before I make it out of here tonight.
Taking a long breath, I touch my jeans pocket with the money and ID to make sure it is safe.
The lights come on and I get the grenades out of the backpack, before throwing the empty bag on the ground.
I pull the clips from the first grenade and then I run, my legs feel like they are taking twice my size because of the pain I am in.
There is no way to prevent the men from seeing me now. Only their deaths can save me. The second grenade is thrown next as the bullets go through the air, and I reach the code panel for the gates.
I puncture the code for the gate and scream as a fist goes into my back.
The guard grabs my hair and I kick the side of his knee joint as hard as I can, something Spade taught me in one of our lessons.
as his bullet gets me in the stomach. I am taken a few steps back
first, it is burning pain, then it is a numb ache that spreads, and hot, it is
nose with my palm and grab the blade strapped to his thigh. The blade now in my hand goes straight for the killing
in the digits again as fast as I can. The alarms blur through
in my ribs, and punches me over and over in the face that I am not sure how I do it when I slice
other one and he falls. Grabbing the
head throbs, my eyes swelling fast. Gunshots rain through the air, my ears ringing from
manage to get most of them until I hear the sirens. The sound of cops approaching is Magdelaine's doing and my chance to
duck around trees and
don't stop, even though I should. Finally, I slow down a good distance away from the Sanati Palace, there is no choice, I am
definitely swelling up. Where I was stabbed is bleeding, my ribs on my right feel sensitive and throb like a
guy flinches at my movements and clothes but quickly changes when I hand him a few hundred and the piece of
me there,”
that if I ever needed a place
The ride is long, the cab driver is talking but I just know I am saying no,
is a blur after that. I gag a few times on the ride. When I get to the address the driver
people he does help me a bit. He leaves me on the pavement in front of these big gates and presses
up just as it opens, then I fall down again. It feels like I am going to die, but I can't. I made it
gates close and I use it
there?” The Southern twang comes through sounding
she offered me help. Once I thought she was just
I knew I would eventually. I groan as the pain in my
fuck you are don't waste
manage to say before my legs
maybe
while, I feel so
hands holding me. There