Four Flames for Angela

“Can you put it on speaker?” Angie asked, not wanting to have to hold the phone.

She heard ringing and, “Nine-one-one, what is your emergency?”

Angie calmly explained what was going on and where she was. She was surprised she was able to be so calm.

She glanced back in the rearview and saw the car coming again. “The car’s trying to ram us again,” she told the operator.

“Do whatever you can to safely avoid. I have police, fire, and rescue in route. Don’t hang up the phone until they are with you. Do you understand?”

“Yes,” Angie said and pressed harder on the accelerator. She was glad she’d used some of the money from her grandmother to buy a new car. She wouldn’t have been as confident in an older one.

“Hold on, honey,” she told Todd as she increased their speed even more. She was glad there wasn’t a lot of traffic, but maybe if there had been, the car behind her wouldn’t have been so brave.

Angie glanced down at the speedometer, and she was going close to ninety miles an hour. That was fine on the straight part of the road, but there were curves coming up ahead and she didn’t know what she was going to do then.

“Angie, are you still there?” the operator on the phone asked.

“Yes. There are curves coming ahead, and I don’t know what to do,” Angie answered, her voice a little frantic.

“Just keep calm. The emergency responders are on the way. They should be there in less than five minutes.”

“I don’t know if I have that much time,” Angie said, looking in the rearview mirror again.

She glanced over at Todd, and he looked as terrified as

she felt. What was she going to do?

Todd reached his little hand over and put it on her leg. “I wish Sawyer, Hunter, River, or Rock were here.”

“So, do I, baby. So do I.” Angie looked back again and saw the car was still behind her, but she could also see blue and red flashing lights in the distance.

Chapter Seventeen

“Was Angie heading to the house right after she picked up Todd, or are we picking them up at her place?” Hunter asked Rock while they were checking out the equipment on the fire truck.

“We are meeting her at the house…” he started to say before the speaker went off. They had a call.

They listened to the details, then grabbed their gear and headed for the truck.

They headed out to the truck, working as a team like always. River was driving while Rock radioed in for more details.

“Female driver with an aggressive unknown behind her. Unknown has attempted to ram subject’s car. They are both traveling at a high rate of speed. No injuries at this time. Outcome unknown at this point.”

Rock acknowledged the information, and they all sat quietly, mentally preparing for what they might face. At this point, there were no injuries, but with the fact that there was an active pursuit and more vehicles might become involved, it was hard to tell what might happen.

They drove for a few minutes, and then Rock radioed for an update. There was no new information, so they continued as quickly and as safely as possible.

It didn’t take long before they caught up with the police cars and could see that they were chasing two cars. An older sedan and an SUV. Both looked very familiar.

As they got closer he recognized the sedan as the car that Angie’s brother Thomas had used. After the police had taken Thomas into custody, they had arranged to have the car towed, and Rock hadn’t thought any more about it.

“Isn’t that…” River asked, seeing the car the same time Rock did.

“Yeah. I think so,” Rock answered, reaching in his pocket for his phone.

“Who are you calling?” Sawyer asked. He was driving and concentrating on the road.

“I’m calling the police station. I want to find out if Thomas is still in custody.” Rock started talking on the phone.