Chapter 306: Chapter 306: Attempted Murder

The shockwave hit like a freight train, rocking both myself and the person pinning me to the ground, the wash of intense heat making my lungs ache, my skin tight. I blinked against the dust blown behind the explosion, choking on it, trying to draw breath into compressed lungs.

"Off," I managed around my gasping. The body on top of me rolled free, landed next to me. I locked eyes with Charlotte, the werewolf Galleytrot freed long ago. Her eyes were a wolf's eyes, but the rest of her was still human.

"You're well?" She asked in her softly accented voice. The thrum of sound the concussion left behind made it hard to hear.

I nodded, gasping for breath, staring at the burning wreck that had been Minnie.

Damn it. I loved that car.

Charlotte found her feet, springing up like she'd been on the ground by choice, her hands reaching for mine, pulling me up.

"Smelled the bomb components," she said.