AN: Thanks again for the reviews. Sorry this took me a while to update. I have been in school for almost two weeks and its soooooooo crazy with homework and all. I'll try to post sooner but it might be a while. Homework takes up soooooooo much of my life. Thanks

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Danger Around Every Corner

Chapter 2 The Chase

Thursday Afternoon

Local Café

12:25 pm

Mac ran though the noisy kitchen with one thought on her mind. 'I have to get out of here!' All of the chiefs were still in the kitchen, having not heard the shot and screams that had just come out of the restaurant. They looked at her shocked as she ran through. She could hear the armed men chasing after her and sped up, dodging the flaming pans of cooking food. She ran to the back door and flung it open with more speed than she knew she had. She saw her car and rushed towards it; a second later the armed men followed her through the open door and started shooting.

"Stop idiots," the head man said. "We don't want her dead."

Mac meanwhile had reached her car, got inside and started fumbling with her keys.

"Come on car...please start," she prayed as the men advanced toward her. They were almost to her car, and the stupid car wouldn't start. Finally the car roared to life leaving the men in the dust, as she turned around and sped out of the parking lot. Tears still streamed down her face and she wiped them away with her sleeve.

'Get a hold of yourself,' she thought. 'If you want to stay alive you're going to have to pull yourself together.'

She was on a main street now, not sure where she was going. She looked out her rear view mirror and gasped as the black van, from the restaurant, pulled around the corner following behind her.

"I don't believe this!" she said out loud, as the van swerved around other cars to catch up with her. She had to lose them, but how? The lunch traffic crowd was starting to back up and it was getting hard for Mac to stay ahead of the van. The van was inching toward her as the seconds went by. She rounded the next corner but the van still followed in pursuit. She sped up again and made a sharper turn. She wised by houses and cars along the streets.

"Whoa!" she said, as she just avoided running into a huge car full of flowers a man was wheeling across the street. The van wasn't so lucky and crashed head on into it spraying flowers everywhere. The man yelled curse words at the black van as it passed still in pursuit of Mac's car. Mac went down another street; this one was even more crowded than the last. There had been some kind of accident up ahead and traffic blocked her in on all sides. Mac smiled as she looked back in her rear view mirror. The van four or five cars behind her, so she was safe for now. The backed up traffic give her enough time to plan her next move.

When the traffic started moving again she went around another corner then around into an alley and stopped behind this white delivery truck. The van now turning the corner couldn't find her car and passed by not seeing it behind the delivery truck. Mac slumped back in her sear and let out the breath she didn't even know she was holding. 'What could have Athena gotten herself into that would have made someone want to kill her and why are they after me?' Then she felt something digging into her side and realized it was her purse, or more like something in her purse. She pulled out the disk and studied it in the light. 'It was just a regular computer disk. Why would someone be after this?' All these questions were jumbled around in her mind as she pulled her car out from behind the delivery truck and onto the street.

Meanwhile........

"Dam!" said the man who had lead the team of men to kill Athena. "How could we lose her?"

"I don't know, Johnny," said one of the men as they all drove around still looking for her.

"One minute she turned around the corner the next, bam!!!! She was gone," added another one of the guys.

Suddenly a ringing of a cell phone was heard throughout the car. They all took out their phone when Johnny said, "It's mine. Hello,"

"Did you kill Athena?" the man on the other end of the phone asked.

"Yeah," Johnny answered.

"Good, then you retrieved the disk?"

"Negative, there were complications."

There was a pause on the other end. "What complications?" He man asked sounding very irritated.

"She passed the disk off to a friend before we could retrieve it."

"I gave you a job and I expect it to be fulfilled. Do you understand that Johnny?"

"Yeah, boss."

"Good, do you at least know the name of the person the disk was passed too?"

"Frankie looked at the name on the reservation list," Johnny said.

"It was a Ms. Sarah Mackenzie that Athena met with, Frankie said.

"Did you get that boss?" Johnny asked.

"Yes. You guys do a scanning check of Ms. Mackenzie. Find out where she lives then pay her a visit. We don't want that disk to end up in police custody. We have a shipment coming in tomorrow."

"Ok," Johnny said.

"Oh and Johnny don't disappoint me this time." Then he hung up the phone.

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