And somewhere outside the barn?—
someone screamed.
Then came the sound that turned every operator instantly deadly again.
The slow metallic click?—
of the barn doors being chained shut from the outside.
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FELICITY
The chain rattled hard outside the barn doors.
Then came the heavy scrape of metal locking into place.
Every person inside went deadly still.
Trigger’s voice dropped from the loft above us.
“We’ve got movement outside.”
Rook’s eyes narrowed instantly.
“How many?”
“Too many.”
Gunfire erupted seconds later.
Not random.
Controlled.
Strategic.
The cleanup crew had stopped hunting Mercer’s convoy.
Now they were hunting us.
Hersh shoved me behind him immediately while Wolf killed the remaining flashlight beam near the stalls.
Darkness swallowed the barn again.
Only lightning flashed through the cracks in the old wood now.
Quick white bursts.
Quick enough to see shadows moving outside.
Circling us.
My pulse slammed harder.
“They locked us in.”
A bullet tore through the barn wall beside Trigger’s head.
