Storm

Storm (Chap. 14)

Chapter 14

            Get out.

            I was jerked out of sleep, but I was careful not to make any betraying movement that I was up, not making that rooky mistake. I listened for any heartbeat that was present in the house, but mine was the only one that I heard.

            I rolled silently out of bed and stayed well under the view of my window as I hid behind my bed, hidden from someone seeing me whether they came in through my door or my window. I was ready for any attack.

            Get out, Ileana repeated.

            I can handle this, I mentally growled at her.

            No, you can’t, get out now, or you won’t be leaving here alive.

            I wanted to argue, this was someone coming after me in my house, this wasn’t something I was going to let go. But, as much as I wanted pay back, I knew that I had to listen to Ileana, as much as I hated to listen to her sometimes, she was never wrong.

            I closed my eyes again and widened my range for hearing heartbeats. There were at least six going on an adrenaline high heading towards the front door of my house. I could most likely easily handle them, but not without the risk of exposure. I opened my window just wide enough so that I could slip through it before I slide it shut so that only an inch was left open.

            I moved into a tree that was in the yard, it was far enough from the window that they wouldn’t be able to see me through the leaves, but close enough that I would be able to see and hear what was happening in there.

            They were all men, all very muscular, all armed to the teeth. One of them swore. “She’s not in here.”

            Another one smacked him in the back of the head. “Well thanks for that, Einstein, let me guess, your next observation is going to be that she heard us coming?”

            The first one to talk growled. “Shut up, kid, you’re lucky that I haven’t wrung your neck already.”

            Another one, one that had been haphazardly searching my room, stopped in his ineffectual search to glare at both of them. “You idiots, stop fighting and look for it, that drive has to be here somewhere. Evelyn will kill all of us if we don’t find it, she took information out of our computers, if we don’t get it back…. Just start looking!”

            I rolled my eyes. They weren’t going to find it. On Sarah’s necklace, since I always had it with me, I created a bug that once I activated it by touch, it would find the closest computer system, and then take everything off of that computer and moving into a storage chip that I hid on the back of the stone of my necklace. I never went anywhere without it, so their search of my room would give them nothing, they wouldn’t even be able to find my weapons. I never hid anything in my room that I didn’t want my parents to ever see unless it was completely unable to get into with out my specific genetic code. These idiots were too stupid to end up close enough to my hiding places to even try getting into them.

            It took about another hour, but then they were gone, leaving my room in tatters. I should have been pissed, but at the moment, I was too tired to care. I didn’t follow them back to Evelyn’s new compound, I just threw a tracker onto two of the men before they were even out of my yard. Then I called my team.

            Cal, Le, high alert, I said after activation my communicator.

            Cali groaned. It’s one in the morning, can’t it wait until normal people are up?