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“I’m here,” I reply, going around a corner. “We’re almost there.”
I slide across the metal, headed for the opening in the far back where light pours in.
“I can see the floor,” Rory mutters.
“Okay, now jump down carefully,” I tell her. “You can turn around, right?”
She nods when she looks at me, and then she curls her body up into a ball and switches her legs to the front.
“Just like on the playground, you just jump down.”
“But what if there are people there?”
“Don’t worry about them. If they even see you, they’ll be far too busy with Nathan, Kai, and Blaine to care,” I reply.
She hesitates but still pushes farther, dangling her little legs over before she makes the jump.
It’s not far down, and when I crawl ahead, I can see her.
“Hide!” I tell her.
She moves away from the shaft and remains out of sight for a second as I lower myself face-first and hang onto the ledge to let my feet drop first.
But as I come to a stand, I feel the weight of my own blood coming down on me.
Because in front of me is a hoard of Bonesmen, their tattoos giving away their allegiance. They’re sporting butcher knives and gnarly-looking grimaces.
“Please don’t hurt me,” Rory murmurs from underneath the table to my left.
I step to the side to block them from looking at her.
“Don’t worry, Ro,” I say, with a smug grin as I pull my tiny gun from my boot while the Bonesmen approach. “I won’t let them touch you. Now close your eyes and don’t open them until I say so.”
KAI
When they burst into the room, I brace myself and wait until they’ve run over the door before I shoot. Bullets ricochet across the room, zooming past my ears as I shoot them down one after the other. Nathan storms at one of the Bonesmen who comes too close and rams his knife into his throat, then roars when he pulls it out. His eyes almost blaze with fire after every kill he makes, vengeance turning him into a psycho killer. And it puts a goddamn smile on my face.
“I’m gonna kill you all!” Nathan screams, shoving his knife into someone’s eye.
“Please…” my victim mutters, but I shoot a bullet straight between his eyes.
They should’ve thought of mercy before they tried to attack us.
Blaine skewers the Bonesmen on his katana like he’s counting bodies in his head, trying to beat Nathan at the killing game.
I guess Milo really picks his friends with care.
When one of them attacks Blaine from behind, Nathan shoots him down. “You’re welcome.”
“I didn’t ask for help,” Blaine retorts. “But thanks.”
“Behind you!” I yell when Nathan’s too distracted by Blaine’s words, and I shoot another Bonesmen down before he can put a butcher’s knife into Nathan’s belly.
More gunshots follow, and I lift the table and hide behind it for cover, rising only to shoot. Meanwhile, Blaine and Nathan are having a knife match in the hallway beyond.
“Don’t get carried away!” I yell.
A bullet grazes my face and tears off my mask.
