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But that didn’t stop Silver from firing. A bullet hit a pipe, and steam exploded into the small space.
Not a gas line. Not yet.
Girls were screaming.
“Run!” yelled Hunter. “Get out of here!”
The gun fired again. A flare of light, the clang of a bullet on steel. More steam, making the near darkness even more blinding. Sneakers scuffed on concrete, and they had to be running.
“They’re kids,” Hunter cried. “Let them go!”
“No.” Silver fired again, and Hunter darted left, hitting the pipes. He begged the steam to give him Silver’s location.
Silver must have been doing the same thing, only his abilities were stronger. The gun found the edge of Hunter’s jaw before Hunter even sensed motion.
Hunter froze.
“Drop your weapon.”
Hunter dropped it. The dark clouds of vapor swallowed it immediately.
Silver gave him a little shove with his gun, pushing Hunter’s head up. “You sent those children running. Do you honestly think they’ll stop causing damage just because you told them to?”
“They’re kids. They don’t know what they’re doing.”
“They do know what they’re doing. The deaths at the carnival proved that. I’m not worried about them right now. Your files will be quite helpful to track them down.”
His files. The ones he’d lost when Silver tracked him to the Merrick house.
Something told him Silver wouldn’t just threaten to harm those kids’ parents the way he had behind Noah Dean’s house.
Silver put more pressure on the weapon. “Tell me where the Merricks are hiding, and I’ll give you a quick death.”
“I’m going to kill you,” Hunter said.
“Good luck,” said Silver.
It wasn’t a matter of luck, it was a matter of time. Hunter just had to stay alive long enough for the kids to get out of the tunnels.
Then he could blow up the school himself if that’s what it took to kill this guy.
“You showed up pretty quick,” he said.
“Tell me where the Merricks are hiding,” Silver said again.
“Fuck you.”
Silver shot him.
In the leg.
The pain was quick and immediate, and Hunter was on the ground before he even registered what had happened.
What had Bill said about arteries? Hunter’s vision already felt spotty.
He rolled and looked up at Silver. “You’re really an ass**le.”
Silver shot him in the other leg.
