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“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.
Hunter cried out. He couldn’t help it. Pain ripped through him like a white-hot poker. It felt like the bullet had gone straight through bone.
Maybe that had really happened. He could swear he couldn’t feel his feet.
He needed to find his gun. He needed to shoot Silver. Or a gas line.
Or himself, just to stop this blinding pain.
“How many more of you are there?” said Silver.
Hunter almost couldn’t think to process the words. “More of me?”
“Fifths like you, living outside our notice?”
“Just me.”
“I don’t believe you. How did you coerce Kate to join you?”
The mention of Kate bought him a moment of clarity. “I didn’t coerce her into anything. Kate wasn’t a killer. She didn’t want to be like you.”
Hunter patted his hand along the concrete, searching for a weapon. Even the ax.
“My mistake,” said Silver, “was working with children.” He shot Hunter in the leg again, closer to the knee.
His vision went white for a moment, and Hunter felt like he lost a minute of time.
“Who else is like you?” Silver demanded again.
“Fuck you.”
“What are you, sixteen? No wonder you couldn’t save your father. No wonder you couldn’t—”
“Shut up! You don’t know anything! He was nothing like you.”
“You’re right,” said Silver. He pointed the gun at Hunter’s head. “I do what needs to be done.”
He pulled the trigger.
The gun exploded. Hunter saw the flash, but that was it.
Then Silver was yelling and the smell of gas was in the air.
