Page 156 of Rangers Last Promise

Mine do too.

Hampton crawls behind the cabinet.

“I understand Grant much better now.”

“Shut up, Hampton,” Doc and I say together.

Trigger laughs again.

This time even Wolf joins him.

I’m beginning to understand why Grant loved these men.

“North side!” a deputy shouts over the radio.

Tate crouches beside the broken window.

“How many?”

“Two shooters confirmed. Possible third near the tree line.”

Two.

Maybe three.

This isn't Hampton improvising another escape.

Someone came prepared.

I look toward the file box on the floor.

They came for Site Seventeen.

“Sheriff!”

Tate looks at me.

“They aren't shooting at us.”

Doc follows my gaze.

“They're shooting at the building.”

Another round punches through the window and strikes the steel cabinet.

Hampton dives aside.

“They want the files,” he says.

“No,” I answer.

He looks at me.

“They want to destroy them.”

A second later, something crashes through the broken window.

Small.