Moon Bound

nd regret. She felt the weight of his anger a relentless pursuit about to begin at any moment. Every fi

she go? How long

o as not to wake her baby, who was sleeping hitherto peacefully in the next room. She knew she had to leave;

nd her all along. She could protect them, at least for the moment, but she really needed

. Then, with one last glance around the small house th

," she murmured, sha

y up at her with those bright green

voice steady, though panic swirled around in

e child dress, her hands shaking as she zipped their jacket. Literally, she

the empty street, tugging fast on the hand of her child. She felt every pulse and every

otice. A few miles ahead lay a little town-one where she knew somebody who might

a clump of trees, and she flung the door open, got her child in the

and then kissed their forehead. "We

deadly serious, the current voice of t

ripped on the wheel. The car growled to life, and she pulled into th

r to the ends of the earth if he had to. But for as much as she felt she could outdistance

he back, but at least until now, everything was lacking on the road behind th

le more time," while she pressed ha

asleep in the back seat once more. Her blonde head was in complete contrast with the black vinyl of t

in her memory. She had loved him once with a burning passion, but that man was gone. In his place was s

She couldn't tell him the truth about why she left and kept their child a secre

unknown number, but she recognized the code it was one o

ose. Be

it down deep and pushed a heavy foot on the gas. She absolutely had to concentrate on drivin

oad seemed to disappear many miles into the horizon: long and twisting through the dense jungle surroun

thers he had put out to look for her-others from his pack of wolves? At that thought, Luna's pulse quickened. Sh

ry worn map. Her fingers traced the route to the town. It wasn't far now, just

pped a beat. Miles away, a pair of headlights neared from arou

ng. She had to lose them; she must fi

na took her car off the main road on a bumpy ride effortlessly, what with the bouncing of the car ove

," Luna said, striving to be calm. "We j

ight to keep it straight as she roared down the path. The branches cut at the windows and the underbrush thinned, which seemed

had lost them. Perhaps they had turned the other way, or perhaps they jus

f roar of an engine, moving closer

time with closer force, charging at them like a savage abou

m, her knuckles white on the

eped into Luna's bloodstream, washing through her veins as she pushed the car t

vely discern that, like Ryder's car, the vehicle was moving toward them. She could feel his presenc

lainly: a few steps ahead of her, a short bridge crossed a deep, dark chasm. Maybe she coul

The sides of the car rattled, screaming with it, on with the zooming. For one white flash of a moment,

h a jolt, on the other side. Luna took off through the other side, didn

is car thundered onto the bridge behind th

th driving into the inner part of the woods. But it was now or never; all of a sudden, she v

ore through the underbrush. Luna gasped raggedly for breath, her heart hammer

y and huge, compared to her little piece of a car, couldn't go through that tight spo

n visible in the far distance, Luna's heart did a flip.