Page 25 of Broken Oath

Then Viking winked.

Actually winked.

And opened fire.

The first fighter dropped.

Then another.

Then another.

His rifle thundered across the mountains.

The enemy surged toward him.

Viking met them head-on.

Laughing.

Fighting.

Defiant to the end.

Rook stood frozen for one terrible second.

Then Sniper grabbed him.

“We have to go.”

Rook turned away.

It was the hardest thing he had ever done.

Behind them, Viking’s rifle continued firing.

One shot.

Then another.

Then another.

The sound followed them into the darkness.

Until eventually⁠—

It stopped.

The silence that followed would haunt James Callahan for the rest of his life.

Rook ran.

Hammer’s laughter echoed inside his head.

Then Tex’s smile.

Bishop standing behind his machine gun.

Ridge disappearing in an explosion.