Chapter 10 - The Unlikely Ally
"Stay away from us!" I screamed, shielding my baby with my body as I looked desperately around for anything I could use as a weapon.
Vance took two slow, measured steps toward me, a humorless smirk touching his lips. "You made this difficult for yourself, Major Wright. If you had just—"
VROOOOM!
The screech of tires tearing across wet asphalt drowned out Vance's words.
From around the corner of the alley, a beat-up gray pickup truck came barreling sideways through the rain, its high-beam headlights blindingly bright as it aimed directly at Marcus Vance’s SUV.
Vance leaped out of the path just in time as the truck slammed into the side of the black SUV with a sickening crunch of twisted metal and shattering glass.
The driver’s side door of the battered truck flew open instantly, and an elderly man in a bloodstained medical coat jumped out into the mud.
It was Dr. Robert Wright.
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He clutched a heavy steel wrench in one hand, his gray hair plastered across his forehead, his chest heaving as he stared furiously at Vance.
"Get in the truck, Joanna!" the old doctor roared over the roar of the idling engine. "Move, now!"
