Chapter 29: The escape

McKenzie drove slowly, with the headlights on. She obeyed the speed limits and traffic signs. She drove carefully, but not so carefully as to look suspicious. When the police passed them, going in the other direction, they looked like any normal group of people driving around at night. They didn’t even get a second glance from the men and women in the patrol cars.

McKenzie took them slowly but surely out of the city. No one pulled them over. They weren’t questioned. Once outside of city limits, she pulled over at a rest stop. “Bathroom breaks if you need them, boys,” she said over her shoulder as she got out, bringing her handbag with her.

David, now wearing just the black pants and a white t-shirt, stepped outside and stretched out. There was a fifty-two million dollar painting in the van.

Collins lit up a cigarette.

McKenzie went to the back of the car and knelt down, pulling some kind of tool out of her purse.