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I nodded.
“There are too many,” Olivia said, rushing to us, and kicking back another robe on her way over. “We’re risking serious injury the longer this continues, something we can’t afford if we’re to enact our plan against the Head Infidels and the Heretics.”
Jonah tossed one of his opponents off him. Lance reacted in a split second as the guy came our way, and he fired off a shot through his skull, dropping him, while Jonah slit the throat of another.
He spun back to us, nodding. “Make a path for the kids, I’ll take the roof. Once they’re out, join me, love.”
She planted a quick kiss on his cheek. “Watch your six.”
“Always,” he said, before giving me a chin lift, then forcing his way through the robes on his way up the stairs to make it to the roof. I saw him look over at Aurora, hesitating briefly, before he nodded to himself when he saw how she was killing it in battle, then continuing on.
“Get back,” Olivia told me, gesturing to Jonah too, pulling us back from the kitchen door and closer to the others.
Then she withdrew two grenades and tossed them.
They went off, ripping apart the kitchen, through the door, into the robes there and more trying to come in through. Screams tore right through me as blood and flesh exploded as they were blown apart.
“Time to go!” she called to Aaron as the three of us sprinted toward him, Asher, and Aurora. “Lan and I are gonna pick them off, the rest of you get clear. Head to the safehouses.”
Aaron nodded and he and Aurora forced their opponents further into the room.
As we helped, Aurora then ran to Asher and pulled him off somebody he was cutting into again and tearing apart.
He snarled and spun on her, but stilled when he saw her face.
It had him blinking and panting, fighting to get his bearings and come back down from that animalistic state.
In the next moment, he was clutching her offered hand and rushing out through the patio doors with her, the rest of us following.
As soon as we were clear and the robes started for us, Olivia tossed grenade after grenade, blowing them to hell and lighting up the first floor of the house in the process.
“Go,” she told us. “Disappear into the trees. Lan and I will pick off the rest.”
Breathing heavily and still trying to come down, Asher nodded, then told us, “Let’s move.”
“See you on the next battlefield,” Aaron said to Asher, giving his shoulder a squeeze, before he passed on by and took the route for the safehouse Bryce was holed up in.
He disappeared into the trees and Olivia covered us as we did the same in the opposite direction.
“You all right?” I heard Jonah ask as he switched on a flashlight, then Aurora did the same, walking beside me, while Jonah had his eyes on a very bloody Asher.
His eyes were wild as he swung his head to look at him. “Fine.”
“You need helping pulling it back? We’re here, okay? We’re here for you.”
Ash actually smiled. “I know you are. I’m holding it right now. If that changes, I’ll let you know.”
“Really?”
“Yes. No more handling this sort of thing alone, right?”
“Very good,” Aurora said, uttering Ash’s sort-of catchphrase.
That earned a chuckle from us all.
Unfortunately, our lighthearted banter following a bout of intense violence and danger was cut short when Ash came to an abrupt halt just before we made a turn that would lead us over a hill, then provide a straight-run to where we’d hid a vehicle a mile and a half from our current location.
“More,” he warned. “Incoming.”
