Wrong (9 page)

“What money?”

“The money he stole from me.”

“Elijah—“ she began, but he was opening the glove compartment and putting the gun in it. And then he’d backed out and started driving down the alleyway.

Something was wrong, but she couldn’t tell what it was.

His face was pale and sweat beads stood out on his forehead. His one hand gripped the steering wheel tightly while the other lay in his lap. He grit his teeth. “That stupid son of a bitch,” he muttered, shaking his head. “I should’ve killed him while I had the chance.”

“Did you shoot someone, Elijah? Please tell me you didn’t.”

“I didn’t,” he said, his voice strained. He licked his lips.

“Where are we going?”

“The hospital.”

“Why?” she nearly screamed.

And then she saw that his hand wasn’t in his lap, it was actually protecting his stomach, holding it. And there was a dark stain spreading through his shirt. He glanced over and saw that she’d seen it.

“I’m going to be fine,” he said through still clenched teeth.

“Elijah,” she said. “You’re shot!”

“It’s all right. I’ll be fine. Just have to get to the hospital is all.”

She felt faint, truly faint. Spots appeared before her eyes, and the world was spinning.

He’s going to die. He’s going to die.

She looked over and he was green, and deadly pale.

“Elijah, you have to let me drive!”

He looked at her, and his eyes were enormous, his pupils dilated, big as black marbles. “What?” he said, his lips not working quite right. “Did you—“

And then she turned to see the telephone pole coming towards them. She shouted a warning but it was too late.

They hit the pole and she actually saw the windshield fold inwards, felt the glass shards hitting her face, tasted the metallic taste of blood.

She felt an enormous jarring impact on her head, and she heard the screeching sound of iron and the smelled the scent of oil and gasoline, and smoke in her nostrils.

But she was floating now, floating into the darkness, as sirens cascaded in her ears, fading, fading.

Her last thought was only of him.

Elijah, her mind whispered. Elijah.

But her lips never moved.

THE END OF BOOK 4

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