Chapter 151: Lumen, Blair, Max

Sunday. Creed of Truth Sanctuary, Brazil.

LUMEN FELT AS THOUGH she were being grilled alive lying in the bed of the pickup with the afternoon sun baking her. Her shoulder throbbed and if she breathed too deeply her ribs hurt. She didn't think they were broken. Fractured or bruised, but not broken. That was good.

Thomas spat curses as he wrestled with the newly flat tire.

"Hurry up," Blair demanded.

Lumen winced.

That wasn't going to go over well.

"What did you say to me?" Thomas said in a dangerous tone.

There was a heavy thud.

Lumen imagined Thomas dropping the tire iron as he rose to direct his wrath at a new target.

"They're going to find us. We need to get clear of here," Blair said.

"What the fuck do you think I'm doing?"

"God, I never should have listened to you."

"If it weren't for me, you'd be locked in your daddy's pleasure palace waiting on him to stick you with a needle and turn you into a good little daughter."

"Shut up!" Blair roared. "Why don'