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Friendly fire?
My heartbeat, reasonably controlled until that moment, started pounding against my ribcage as my foot caught a tree limb, sending me flying forward, my stomach bottoming out, and forcing me to throw out my forearms to break my fall.
Just as I heard someone booking it toward me.
“Got him!” he called out, making me whip over onto my back, knowing there was no way I could get to my feet fast enough.
He was too close.
I was just raising my arm.
Then, suddenly, the gunshots rang out.
Bang bang bang bang bang.
I braced for the impact at the first explosion.
But it wasn’t the man standing over me.
I knew because, suddenly, the moon peeked out from behind a cloud, and I watched as his body jolted once, twice, three times before he wavered on his feet, then toppled backward.
The fuck?
I whipped around, getting up on my knees, gun raised.
And there she was.
Her red hair bright even in the dark, like it had been that first night.
Her arm was raised, a gun in her trembling hand.
In fact, her entire fucking body was shaking.
“Hey,” I said, voice soft, coaxing. “Mills, hey,” I said, trying to get to my feet slowly, as not to startle her and end up with a plug in me too. “Mills, it’s alright,” I said, then reached out as fast as I could, grabbing the barrel of the gun, and pushing it down until the muzzle was facing the dirt. “You’re alright. You’re okay.”
There was no time for soothing her.
I had to get her down. Or hidden. She couldn’t be standing here, just waiting for Neeley to grab her, or shoot her.
I yanked the gun roughly out of her hand, tucking it into my waistband, then grabbing her, and running.
What the fuck was going on?
How was she here?
Where did she get a gun?
I had to get her to her car. Get her inside. Get her the fuck out of here.
I could finish this some other time.
“Not so fast,” a voice said, and I fucking heard the sound of the safety being slid off before I even spotted Neeley a few yards away, his arm raised, his face splattered with blood.
Not his own.
One of his men then.
Had Millie shot him too?
