Page 31 of Scars of Fate

I closed my eyes for half a second.

“She’s doing it again.”

She reached the little girl just as another burst of gunfire tore across the ground.

I was already moving.

Bullets snapped past my head.

Adam yelled something behind me.

I didn’t hear him.

All I could see was Wynn.

She scooped the little girl into her arms and turned.

Our eyes met.

Her emerald-green eyes widened.

“Lucas!”

An enemy rifle cracked.

I dove.

My shoulder slammed into Wynn, carrying all three of us behind a shattered stone wall.

A bullet struck the rock where she’d been standing.

Stone fragments exploded around us.

For one heartbeat, I couldn’t breathe.

She was alive.

Barely.

The little girl buried her face against Wynn’s shoulder.

I looked down at Wynn.

“You really don’t know how to follow orders.”

She smiled.

“You noticed.”

I shook my head.

Frustration.

Relief.

Love.

I wasn’t sure where one emotion ended and the next began.