Edward

The world spun heavily as Emmett grabbed me and tossed me inside the SUV that had come screeching to halt in front of us. I landed on my stomach, the breath whooshing out of me as I felt him stumble in behind me. I lifted myself up quickly and slid to the floor of the backseat, tucking my head down below the tinted windows as more shots rang out around us. Emmett crouched awkwardly behind the driver seat, his handgun gripped tightly in his fist as his head swiveled back and forth

"Go, go, go!" Emmett's voice sounded strange as he yelled to the driver. Probably because he never raised it above a soft murmur. His suit was skewed and he looked frantic but also angry, very angry.

"The fuck just happened back there? They came out of nowhere!"

I took in a breath and calmed myself. No one ever got anywhere being hysterical.

"Call the police. We need to go somewhere safe, are you hurt?"

My voice was impressively calm even to my own ears. I understood more than he did about what was happening here.

"We're headed downtown right now. Paul called 911 after the first shots rang out."

"Do you know if anyone was hurt?"

Emmett's grim face was all I registered before another explosion erupted somewhere to the right of our vehicle.

Sirens were getting louder; cars around us were slowing down and pulling off to the shoulder.

"ETA is five minutes."

"This is the last straw you realize this right? You can't keep acting like nothing is wrong. We need to go to Plan B. We need to hide you."

Hiding felt like declaring defeat. My departure from the company and from the known world was exactly what he wanted. I couldn't let him win.

"Don't start shaking your head at me. It's time to call it what it is Edward."

I could count on three fingers the times Emmett has called me by my first name.

"We're here. I'll take cover point." Frank practically ejected himself from the driver's seat.

My jaw flexed as I looked at the mass of cars and police officers swarm the vehicle.

I hated to admit it but he was right. I was going to have to find a place to wait this out. There was nothing else I could do at this point.