Mixed Blood ct-1
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He was exhausted, but he couldn’t stop. He wasn’t only running from the cops; he was running from the memories. Images of Susan and Matt and fragile, imaginary snapshots of his new baby girl that threatened to dissolve and disappear. The farther he was away from his family, the better off they would be. Of that he was certain.
A semi swam toward him out of the haze, and the wind of its passing buffeted the Ford, dragging Burn from within himself.
He drank water from a plastic bottle and splashed some on his face. He didn’t have a plan, exactly. Knew only that he had to get out of South Africa, cross into neighboring Botswana, and catch the first plane out. It didn’t matter where. Just put as much distance as he could between himself and Cape Town. He had the money and the William Morton passport, and he knew that the border between the two countries snaked through the unpatrollable desert. There was a good chance he wouldn’t have to trouble immigration officials.
He just had to keep his foot flat. Keep on going.
He heard a tuneless version of “Good Vibrations,” and he realized that he was singing. When he caught himself waiting for Matt to join in the chorus, he shut up.
Shut up in time to hear the bang an instant before he felt the Ford veer wildly to the left. He fought the steering, trying to keep the car on the road. But the tires found the gravel on the shoulder, and the car was flying away from him, flipping, cartwheeling, in a dance of torn metal and glass and bloodred sand.
The last thing Jack Burn saw was the sun in his eyes.
Then nothing.
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