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I backed away from mine and gripped my weapon, scanning for eyes.
“Who’s on the launcher?”Patrick demanded, coming out the door.
“On it,” Steve and Sid called, each racing for an MRAP.Tamra hurried to join Sid, and Roni got in with Steve.
“Be ready!”Patrick scaled the ladder to the roof to coordinate our defense until sunrise.
I looked at my watch.Three a.m.
A calm certainty settled over me as the two engines started.We would never make it until dawn.The lights would draw in the infected, and there were too few of us left.They’d overwhelm one or more of us, and our lights would fall, one by one.The dog would come in and finish off anyone still alive.
“Molev’s out there somewhere,” Patrick called from above.“Try not to shoot him.”
Another howl rang out, closer than before.One of the MRAP’s lights blazed a path through the darkness beyond the floodlights while it backed up toward the house.The second one drove around to the other side.Both possible escape routes if things went bad quickly.
But more importantly, both were equipped with MK19s, rapid-fire grenade launchers.The only thing we’d found that could slow one of those dogs.
“Eyes!”someone yelled.
“Sid,” I heard Patrick say.“We’ve got eyes on the hound southeast of your position.”
A roar split the night.Even though I now knew it belonged to Molev, I still had that same feeling of not wanting to ever meet the creature that made that sound.
“Hold, Sid.It’s circling.Steve, it’s following the edge of the field, heading west.It’s turned north.It’s moving at—shit.Hold fire.Molev’s running right at it.”
Unable to see a thing beyond the lights, I side-stepped closer to Sean’s position.It didn’t do any good, but I couldn’t think of anything beyond the fact that Molev was running at one of those dogs.Sure, he said he could kill them.But alone?
He’d also said he could die, and I’d seen what those hounds could do.
We needed Molev alive.
“Dammit,” I said under my breath.
The dog broke out in vicious snarls that ebbed and swelled in volume.
“He’s carrying the fucking thing toward us,” Patrick yelled.“Steve!One hundred and ten yards due west of the house.Now.”
“Patrick, no!”I yelled a beat before the bap-bap-bap of the launched grenades resonated in my chest.
I stared at the darkness in disbelieving horror.
“Move, Molev!”I screamed.
Explosions erupted.Light flared, momentarily blinding me.Had I just witnessed Patrick destroy our chance for a real future?
Zion’s tear-streaked face rose up into my mind, feeding my anguish.
“No,” I said brokenly.
Something ran at me from the darkness, too fast to see, until it caught me by the arms.
I blinked up at Molev’s yellow-green eyes.
“I need the light to kill the hound.”A howl rang out in time with his words.
“Okay.”
He set his forehead to mine.A shot rang out at the same time he jolted.He snarled in my face and left as quickly as he arrived.
