Chapter 8 - The Flight Across The Keys
Before Vance’s personal guards could surround her, Elena threw a smoke grenade onto the center of the helipad.
Thick grey smoke billowed instantly across the roof, blinding the guards and creating total tactical confusion.
Elena sprinted toward the secondary maintenance elevator, diving inside just as bullets chipped the concrete wall behind her.
She hit the button for the underground parking garage, her heart hammering against her ribs like a trapped wild bird.
The elevator descended rapidly, plunging her into the cool darkness beneath the luxury resort.
When the doors opened, she ran to a blacked-out federal SUV parked in the emergency official bay.
She slammed her mahogany box onto the passenger seat, hot-wiring the ignition with two loose wires beneath the steering column.
The V8 engine roared to life, tires screeching against the painted concrete as she accelerated up the exit ramp into Miami traffic.
Looking in her rearview mirror, she saw two black pickup trucks burst out of the garage behind her in hot pursuit.
She merged onto Overseas Highway, driving south toward the Florida Keys as rain clouds began gathering over the Atlantic ocean.
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The satellite phone on her dashboard began buzzing with an incoming encrypted call from an unknown Washington number.
She hit the speaker button, keeping her eyes locked on the rain-slicked highway stretching out before her.
