CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT

Two months. Two good months I have been running and hiding from Ace and his men.

Ace had people stationed almost everywhere and it was getting close to impossible to escape from the streets. I had to shoot a person just so I could escape and the feeling of pulling a trigger again terrified me. I shot him but I didn't kill him because I had no choice.

It was either I shot him and ran or he would take me back to Ace who I heard had killed everyone who spoke or failed him that day or during the mission to capture me. He was enraged and was willing to pay anyone on the streets any amount to tell him where I was.

I was also having a serious fever and the drugs Malia gave me weren't helping. I was tired, weak, hungry and always alert and I was most especially scared.

Ace could pop out at anytime and if I dropped my guard, he'd find me and make me pay for tricking him. I needed to contact Elias but it was either the payphones had someone guarding it or I ha