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“He’s almost here!” I shouted.
Benjy was so close to the truck that I could see the hope in his eyes. The realization that maybe he was going to make it.
Ten feet away –
That was when Lou killed him.
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It was a coward’s shot. Five bullets in the back.
Benjy’s body jerked like he’d been plugged into an electrical outlet, then lay still. I could see the back of his denim jacket slowly turning red.
“NOOOO!” I screamed.
“What?!” Jack shouted.
“Lou shot him! He shot him in the back!”
Seconds later, Lou appeared at the very back of the pack of bikers. He cranked the engine on the rearmost motorcycle, then swung it around with the meth cook riding bitch. They roared off down the dirt road as the three remaining Midnight Riders kept shooting at us.
“Jack, hurry – he’s getting away!” I screamed.
Jack spun around and fired the rocket blindly, without time to aim.
I felt the blast of heat again, saw the plume of fire, the line of smoke –
The rocket roared through the air and hit one of the motorcycles in the front.
The Harley disintegrated in a ball of flame and twisted metal.
The gunfire stopped.
Jack had spun back behind the truck door with me. Now we peeked over the shot-out window, waiting to see what happened.
The entire row of motorcycles was obliterated and the dirt was on fire with gasoline. Not a single biker was to be seen.
“I think you got them,” Kade said wryly.
“Everybody okay?” Jack called out.
“I’m fine,” I said, although it really only applied physically. As I stared at Benjy’s body, my heart felt beaten to a pulp.
“Not exactly,” Kade said.
We looked over at him. The lower half of his white t-shirt was red, and he was clutching his side with bloodstained fingers.
“Shit!” Jack exclaimed, and ran around the truck. “How bad are you hit?”
“I’ll live.”
“Sid – get over here now!” Jack yelled out.
“No need to shout,” Sid groused.
While Jack attended to Kade, I approached Benjy’s body slowly, almost in a trance.
He lay face-down in the dirt, the back of his faded denim jacket soaked red.
