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with you. I did my part to help you, now let me go.”
    His voice deepened as he said, “This is bullshit! I’m tired of debating with you.  You helped me for a reason.  So you know I’m not a threat to you.”
    “ Then tell me what is going on? One minute I’m waiting to catch a bus to go home from work and I wind up in the middle of a gun battle.”  
    “ I don’t have time to explain.” He picked her up and tossed her over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes.  Carla stifled a scream when his hand smashed against the wound on her hip.  She tried to beat on his back with her fist but didn’t have the strength.  She was at his mercy now.  

Chapter Two
    Zach dumped the complaining female in the passenger seat of the car.  He crawled over her crumpled body to sit behind the steering wheel.  He peeled away from the curb letting the tires spin on the rain-slicked pavement.
    Out of nowhere, she yelled at the top of her lungs. “What the hell is going on? Why am I being abducted by you!”
    “Can you please shut up and let me think!” He yelled back at her.
    She had got quiet before she said in a low but authoritative voice, “Make this the last time you tell me to shut up. You’re not dealing with a timid female that will take that shit from you.”
    Zach removed the wet baseball cap from his head and tossed it in the backseat of the car. He had to think of what to do with the woman with the big mouth. If she hadn’t been in the bus shelter, he would have completed his mission and been long gone.  But now he had her. She was in the middle of everything that went down.
    The whole plan had blown up, and he should have scrubbed it to regroup. However, it was too late to call a stop to it once she entered the bus shelter.  This case was huge and required help from international police agencies as well as the FBI Special Forces teams and the ATF.  He was infuriated that his backup was not in place as planned, and now her life rested solely in his hands.
    “I’m talking to you,” she spat at him.  “Where are you taking me?  My family will call the police if I don’t come home tonight.”
    He ignored her and concentrated on the hindrance of having her with him.  He would have to call his commander to report the incident and that he had Carla Parker under his protection; that wouldn’t go over well.  The plan had been set, and the execution was precise down to the last detail.  How it got messed up in the flash of an eye was beyond him. Carla Parker was supposed to be detained before reaching either one of the bus shelters in the area and replaced by a female ATF agent.
    Zach frowned and looked at her. “Look, lady. I don’t want you here either.  Until I can figure out a way to get you and me out of this mess alive, please sit over there and relax.”
    He saw the disturbed look on her face.  She appeared tough, but she was scared to death.  He wasn’t making it any easier by being mean.  However, she was working his last nerve.  The shrill of her voice and the billion questions she was asking had his nerves on edge.  Not to mention there were dead bodies in a bus shelter that had to be removed before anyone spotted them. Then she caused him to lose precious time by searching through the woods for her.  All in all, a three-month plan to get to his target was a complete failure somewhat. The only good outcome was that Carla Parker was still alive.  Only she wasn’t supposed to be with him.
    He glanced at her again.  Small scratches covered her cheeks and her hair had curled in tight ringlets with water dripping from the ends.  The white uniform she wore was dirty and soaking wet. Her blood and the blood of the dead men covered the front of her pants and smock.
    Zach couldn’t help but feel sorry the woman was beaten and bruised from a battle she had nothing to do with. He opened his mouth to say something then shut it.  There were no words to say to her. If their positions were