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I growled my frustration, stroking the trigger, a shiver rolling down my back.
Just a little more pressure and we could kiss this bastard goodbye for good.
Was Corvus right?
Hold, the rational part of my brain argued, buffing my biceps and shoulder, lending them more strength to keep holding the long weapon in place.
But the darkness was still whispering, and I wanted to feed it the blood it craved.
“Five minutes,” Corvus’ promised. “They should be here in five minutes, Sparrow. Hold.”
The wind quieted enough that the next time Lenny Ace’s vile mouth opened I could hear him. “We’re going to leave,” he shouted, his voice echoing across the lake.
Fucking coward.
“No one else needs to die tonight,” he continued, his voice cracking, arms beginning to lower. “I’m going to back up now.”
“The fuck you are!” I roared, uncaring if he could hear me or not.
Lenny took a step back.
“Corvus,” I hissed.
“Don’t, Sparrow. It’ll be a bloodbath. We can end this another time. On our terms.”
I clamped my mouth shut, breathing in and out rapidly through my nose as I watched Lenny slip back a step. Then another.
Someone opened the side door of a van a few paces away from him and climbed inside, beckoning for him to follow.
NO.
We were not going to let them get away.
“Diesel and the others can stop them on their way out,” Corvus promised, but if Dies was still five minutes away, they could take the dirt road leading around the Deadwood. They could get to the highway before he could intercept them. They could get away.
I watched Lenny through the scope as he dragged his foot another step back, but it wasn’t his movement that made me do it. It was the look in his eyes as he tipped his head up, the moonlight catching on a wicked gleam there. Carving a little gray shadow where the edge of his lips were creased in a vile smirk.
No.
I don’t fucking think so.
My arm tightened on the rifle, I breathed in. Breathed out.
And shot Lenny Ace through the heart.
