Free Blindsided by Katy Lee

keeping you alive easy, you know.”
    “You just worry about yourself. And tighten your buckle. You, too, Maddie.” Roni gave the instruction and reached for the emergency brake with one hand. “Hang on.”
    The intersection approached and she could see two cars waiting at their red lights in the opposite lanes. She hoped they would call the police on her. But then she had to think Ramsey had the police in his back pocket. How else could the man conduct a criminal organization near this sleepy little town?
    “What do you think you’re doing?” Ethan yelled at the top of his voice. “You’ll never make that turn.”
    She turned the wheel, hit the clutch and yanked the emergency brake in one move. As soon as she felt her rear wheels lock up she released the brake and hit the gas. The car made a perfect right angle turn without flipping or crashing into the waiting cars at the light.
    Or even slowing down.
    The open road ahead revealed signs for the interstate on-ramps. Another look in her mirror showed a cluster of cars jammed in the intersection behind her.
    She smiled. “Apparently none of your FBI cronies know how to drift their cars.”
    One look at Ethan’s blanched face and dropped jaw said he had to agree he’d never seen anything like it. “You have to show me how you did that.”
    “You’ll have to sign up for my racing school...if I ever get it opened.”
    “That was amazing. What could possibly stop you?”
    “Who. My uncle is CEO still. My brother, Wade, left the business in his care when he left for the army. Uncle Clay has been against me opening a school since the first moment I mentioned it.”
    The blue highway signs drew closer. Cars whizzed by as she raced past them. The on-ramp beckoned on her right. The off-ramp faced the road on her left, but she only focused on the road that would take her out of this town.
    Bad move.
    “Roni! Watch out!”
    Just before she could crank the wheel to the right, a small black Porsche screamed off the exit ramp and cut her off. It spun out to a stop, blocking her from the on-ramp.
    At one hundred sixty miles an hour, Roni did the only thing she could do.
    She took the off-ramp.
    No other cars exited the highway at the moment, but that didn’t mean one or more wouldn’t hit their blinkers and take the ramp. Good, sensible drivers following the rules of the road, having no idea a speeding car with a woman racing to freedom would be driving straight at them.
    She entered the highway facing the wrong way.
    Car horns blared as she maneuvered between a few vehicles. They parted like a haphazard Red Sea.
    “Another trick of yours?” Ethan asked, noticeable concern in his voice.
    “No. I’ve never done this in my life. Start praying that I don’t kill somebody.”
    “I’m not much of a praying man. You might want to do the praying.”
    “My prayers don’t work.”
    A horn blared as another car drove closer, its sound warped as it flew past them and the speed of sound lessened.
    “All prayers are heard by God,” Maddie spoke from the backseat, her voice strong but filled with fear. “I never stopped believing that. I couldn’t.”
    Roni and Ethan looked at each other for a brief moment, knowing how Maddie’s prayers kept her hope of freedom alive.
    Roni couldn’t claim that Maddie’s prayers didn’t work. After all, here they were rescuing her from a place she never would have broken free from on her own.
    Had God used this situation to answer Maddie’s prayers? Would He free her only to allow her to be killed on this highway now?
    And what about Roni’s abduction? Had God used that situation to bring to light the people in Roni’s life who were out to hurt her?
    As soon as the road cleared, Roni yanked the wheel left and hit the clutch again to make the tightest U-turn ever. But when the same exit ramp neared down the road, she hit her blinker and took it.
    “You’re turning yourself in?” Ethan asked.
    Roni snuck an absurd look his way. “No