Chapter 45 Hitting The Bulls Eye

• The heat driving through my body, I could hardly contain myself as Chase accelerated up speed and drove away from the burning casino, the oranges and reds of the night sky reflected in the flames behind us. I did not think we were capable of it, to launch a second attack and this time to bring down The Raven’s empire. The casino had been a larger target than the warehouse, and more dangerous too, but it had gone like clockwork.
• For the first time I saw Chase taking a roundabout route, twisting through county roads as a way of losing a tail, I couldn’t help but smile. Alessandro shot me a look from the driver’s seat and nodded before smiling back at me; I rarely saw him animated, but he was clearly excited.
• “We really proved it to them this time,” he said in a tone of both astonishment and triumph.