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A shot rang out before I even realized I’d aimed again.This close, I managed a clean headshot and dropped the infected just as Kevin started to move.I thought of Zion and pulled the trigger.It wasn’t a clean shot.Kevin got to his feet.I exhaled and aimed again.
Hands gripped my waist, and my feet left the ground.My stomach lurched as I shot upward.
Molev’s firm hold kept me upright as we landed in a hay loft.A cloud of dust billowed around us.Below, I heard an infected call out and leaned to the side to look down.Molev’s hands slid to my hips, anchoring me.
I watched several infected run for the door.Kevin shambled slowly behind them.Shots rang out in the barn, and I watched the rest of the team surge after them, stepping right over my weapon, which laid on the barn floor below.
More shots rang out in the yard, likely from Katie and Sid on top of the MRAPs.
“We need to help them,” I said, looking back at Molev.
His gaze locked with mine for a second before he knocked my feet out from under me and caught me in his arms.He jumped from the loft, and my stomach did another flip as we dropped.As soon as his feet hit the ground, he was off running.
I squinted against the sudden daylight.It didn’t stop me from seeing the body in the dirt as he sprinted past the barn team and toward the vehicles and infected in front of us.Before he reached them, he jumped.We sailed through the air and lightly landed next to Katie on the MRAP.
She looked up at us with big eyes.
“You are safe,” he said to her.
“Uh, okay.”
I turned to look at the remaining infected.They stood between the barn and the vehicles, not exactly pinned down but experiencing gunfire from two sides.
Sid fired again, dropping another one.
“Stay low!”Brandon called from the barn.
“We need to get down,” I said.
Molev grunted.Instead of getting low or jumping down, he turned around and shifted his hold, so I was shielded by his large torso.
“That’s not helpful,” I said just as the gunfire quieted.
I peeked over his shoulder to see the remaining two infected running for the trees.Sid fired again, and one dropped.He missed on the next shot, though.
He looked at Molev.
“A little help here,” he said.
Molev glanced at me and was just setting me down when the door to the house banged open.
“Report,” Patrick barked, falling into the military version of himself.
“Several undead just came out of the barn.Kevin was one of them.We brought down four, but the fifth escaped,” Sid said.
Patrick looked at Molev.
“Why didn’t you kill them?”
“He did,” I said.“You’ll find a headless body inside the barn.”
Patrick stared at Molev for a long minute.
“We’ve seen what you can do.How fast you can move.You left neat little piles for us to find.Death shrines to show us how easy it is for you to kill them.Or maybe us?Is that why you didn’t just wipe out all of the undead in there?Is everything you said about helping us a lie?”
“No.”
“Then prove it.If you want us to believe you’re not with them, go find and behead that one you let escape.”
