“Fuck yeah,” Thomas whispers when I hit his hand with another bullet. His wrist pouring out blood, Josh shoots him in the head, and everything goes silent. I switch for my rifle, and make my way to Josh after checking if anyone is around.
“We’re safe,” I say before I notice Rian holding his right arm.
“Are you ok?” I ask concerned.
“I’m good we can keep going, it’s just a small cut,” he whispers the last part, I know why. The enemies could and would use any injury against him. We go back to silently walking, until we reach a concrete storage-like building.
“We need to get her to that roof,” Thomas mouths at Josh, Josh isn’t pleased, if I become a sniper for the rest of the mission I’ll be a higher risk target to Liot’s people. I see Rian whisper something to Josh and Josh nods.
Rian walks my way, talking to his microphone, “Kill everyone inside, I’ll take Love to the rooftop. You’ll proceed by yourselves,” I hear it in my earbud yet I can’t believe Josh gave in. I’m grateful he did. I can see Liot’s house from here; it isn’t as near as I’d like, but I can still take clean shots from a higher altitude.
“You good to go, princess?” Rian whispers and I nod, rifle in hands. Josh moves to the trees on our right, infront of the building. Rian guides me to the back door. At this time Dominik and the others should be in the tunnels below waiting for us to clear the building so we can enter Liot’s house. We’re attacking from two fronts at the same time, below and above.
Rian looks at me and kicks the door open when the others start firing at the front. “Denfell is mine-” a guard starts saying and I shoot him in the head, Rian breaks the neck of the other one.
“Let’s go, keep moving,” Rian says when I stand still looking at the head turned down corpse of the man I just shot. I follow him upstairs, Rian kills another two guards on the way to the rooftop.
“Gotcha,” someone says grabbing my ankle and pulling me down the rooftop’s stairs. When the man gets a knife and holds me beneath him, I kick him and am released for one second, but he puts the knife to my neck. “Unfortunate I won’t get a taste of Ricik’s bitch,” he says his blue eyes wicked, starts sliding the knife across my neck when someone fires at him, he falls limp on top of me, I try to kick him off me but he’s too heavy.
Rian gets me from below him, sending him flying down the stairs. “I’ll stay with you,” Kit says, he just saved my life.
“No need-”
“My head is on the stake if I don’t,” Kit says and I nod. Pressing a tissue against the side of my neck.
“Let him stay, he just saved my life,” might as well return the favour. We close the roof’s door, and put a metal beam holding it shut. Kit stands by the door. Rian stays next to me, lying down on the floor, near the edgeof the rooftop. I keep my head as low as possible while still being able to see Liot’s building, and the ground around it.
I can see the guards moving inside the house.
“Do you have a clear shot?” Rian asks and I assent.
“I have several. When should I open fire?” I ask him, Rian’s silver eyes look down and back at me.
“When you see Josh walking towards Liot’s house,” Rian whispers and I stay attentive while trying to slow down my breathing. I need to stay calm and collected. “Can you see Liot?”
“No. He’s smart. They all think they are. They keep standing behind the house’s walls, only passing through the windows to move within the rooms.-”
“They’re shooting Josh, open fire,” Kit says peeking down and going back to the door. I don’t attack anyone at first, and Rian seems impatient. I look at the house trying to see where the shots are coming from. I look and look until I see it. They have a sniper in a house on the other side of the street.
“They have a sniper on the house across from Liot’s,” I whisper at Rian trying to steady my hands to find a clear shot.
“Can you see him?” he asks and I shake my head.
“He’s a blur. I can see where he’s shooting from, though. I think I can kill him. But I only have one chance before he notices us,” I tell Rian and he sighs shaking. He’s afraid. Afraid I can’t do it. I’m out of practice, and this is a difficult task. And I almost have it when I hear a scream. Camilla’s scream, the sniper hit her.
Before he can take another round I instinctively shoot his way. I wait and wait and there isn’t any movement on the rooftop anymore. I hit him, but now I am aknowntarget.
Shooting erupts from everywhere, I don’t have time to look at who I’m hitting twice before doing so, so I grab the microphone “Stay away from the windows,” I say in hope Dominik heard.
“Got it, little Kane,” Marcus responds and I sigh in relief. They’re fine. They won’t go near the windows.
“Get down, Rian,” I scream and he stays halfway up. I let go of the gun and tackle him to the ground. “Are you insane?”
“Just checking the sniper’s dead-”
“Insanity check, stay the hell down or I’ll be the one to shoot you,” I say and see Liot’s guards all moving around the house.
“Kit, take Josh and Love out of here. They’re taking the building down,” Dominik whispers to the microphone, it’s barely audible with all the madness going on. Kit grabs me and we walk hunkered down towards the roof’s door. But before we get there, I feel myself flying away from the door.
