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the
air.
    As the cavalry approached, Joaquin slammed his
door shut and sped toward the woman who was still running full speed. Pulling
the car alongside her, he was surprised to find her mumbling to herself.
    “Get in the car,” he said.
    The woman glanced at him, her pace never slowing.
Peering back at the motel where the wisps of dirt grew closer, she jerked to a
stop and he followed suit with the car. Joaquin waited as she rushed to the
backseat passenger door.
    “I knew you’d come,” she said quietly as she
climbed in.
    Joaquin nodded, taking his first close look at the
woman he was apparently tasked to protect. He wasn’t surprised to find her
beautiful in a shiny American way. Those few freckles splashed along her nose
and cheeks created a strange stirring in him though.
    Jamming his foot down on the gas, Joaquin sped
into the barren horizon with a touch of hope in his normally dormant heart. He
didn’t know who his passenger was or even where they were headed. He did have a
purpose now though and one delivered by God Himself. Joaquin’s existence was
suddenly bigger than the horror of his past - a concept which made him smile.

Chapter Four
    Lila raced the SUV onto the freeway, her eyes on
the rearview and not the traffic ahead. Managing to dodge cars even with her
mind elsewhere, she sped into the carpool lane before finally slowing the SUV
to eighty.
    Quickly accepting her savior might be the worst
driver in the history of the world, Sophie watched all of the lane changes with
horror. Lila then swerved around a family’s minivan, the sole purpose seeming
to be to make Sophie carsick.
    “You’re going to get us killed or at least pulled
over,” Sophie said, glaring at Lila. “Is anyone even following us?”
    “LA is infested with bad guys and the vibes in
this place are crazy. My gut says we’re being followed, but I can’t see him.”
    “Followed by whom? Joaquin?”
    “I thought it was some hunter named Roman, but after
my vision, I don’t know.”
    Lila pressed the gas pedal and took the SUV to a
brutal hundred miles per hour. Glancing at Sophie, she smiled casually, obviously
loving her passenger’s terror.
    “The thing you have to understand is that our
world and the human world aren’t the same. It’s like the smackdown at your
apartment. Neighbors didn’t hear anything. Cops weren’t called. I made that
happen because God let me. He’s letting me drive like this because He knows we
need to get out of LA before the villains rain down on us like locusts. If God
wants me to slow down, He’ll send me a signal.”
    Lila did slow slightly before gunning for the next
lane.
    “These cars don’t even see us. We’re living in a
bubble now, protected from the view of humans. Not from villains or a rogue
hunter though. That’s why I’m going to keep speeding until I know we’re safe.”
    Sophie frowned at Lila who zig zagged through
traffic.
    “You just keep doing things until God says no more
and you end up dead or in jail? That’s your life plan?”
    Smile growing, Lila jerked the car to the right to
avoid hitting a semi.
    “Life plan? You sound like a human.”
    “Yeah, well, I am a human. What do you think you
are?”
    “How’s that life plan working out for you? You
livin’ the dream, darlin’?”
    Sophie glared at Lila, wishing for a snappy response,
but instead all she could manage was a whine. “My life was fine before you and
those villains showed up.”
    “Yeah, I was totally sensing how great your life
was when you did so little to protect it.”
    Crossing her arms, Sophie fumed. She really didn’t
need a lecture from a crazy woman.
    “Oh, don’t pout. It’s not like I’m wrong. You
don’t have a good life because you aren’t living the life God made for you.”
    “And you are?”
    “Yep. Now, anyway. A year ago, I was like you,
living a lie and being really lame at it. I was an awful human. I had a job I
not only hated, but didn’t even seem to know how to do