“The gun, the gun!” Elliot managed to shriek over the ringing in my ears.

“Thanks, Mother!” I snarled, getting up right into a crouched place. I nonetheless may barely see with the white spots in my imaginative and prescient, however then the flashlight was knocked round, and I may lastly see Edgar getting up from one knee, his arms nonetheless tightly gripped across the gun. “Like fuck you might be!”

I dove ahead with out pondering, tackling him and cringing when the gun went off once more as we each hit the bottom. His breath was scorching on my face as he tried to free the gun to get his arms on me. Figuring out rattling effectively, if I let him have even a second to get management, I used to be most likely going to lose to a much more expert fighter. I grappled, attempting to maintain him off stability and preventing greater than I used to be, identical to Riley had accomplished to me months in the past.

“Oh shit,” I heard Elliot swear fiercely from behind me.

“Boss!” got here the very unwelcome sound of Julio’s return.

“Shoot…him!” Edgar growled, nonetheless preventing to get the gun out from between us and attempting to loosen my grip.

“However I don’t need to hit you!”

“Not him! The opposite one!”

Terror clawed at my thoughts as I heard a gunshot virtually instantly and heard Elliot give one other cry. Solely to observe up with an inappropriate, “That was virtually my dick, you asshole!”

Jesus fucking Christ, he was so silly typically. I cherished the fuck out of that man.

The air was full of gunshots and, to my shock, not simply the sounds of a rifle. Even Edgar’s eyes went huge within the faint mild from the flashlight as he realized Elliot was preventing again.

“I’m guessing he received that out of your little fucking demon,” I hissed in a sudden flash of pleasure.

“His goal wants work,” Edgar snarled, reaching out to seize my face.

“We’ll work on it,” I stated, not caring what was proper and what wasn’t, as I sunk my enamel into his hand. He cried with ache, yanking his hand again after which headbutting me. I ought to have seen it coming, however it managed to daze me sufficient, and he surged ahead.

With a pissed off grunt, I discovered myself propelled onto my again, air slammed out of my lungs as I hit the rock. Edgar didn’t trouble preventing together with his gun as he rushed ahead, attempting to slam the flat facet of the butt into my head. I caught it earlier than it received too shut, grappling with him whilst I may really feel my power starting to wane. I’d had the higher hand earlier than, catching him off guard, however he was extra skilled at preventing than I used to be and had way more stamina.

“Simply…maintain…nonetheless,” he growled.

“Fuck you,” I snapped again, squeezing his hand as laborious as I may to drive him to loosen his grip. It virtually labored, besides it made him shift his grip, and I needed to observe after, attempting the identical tactic.

It wouldn’t matter how a lot time handed after this. What occurred subsequent would by no means make sense. Throughout our battle, my failing however superior power within the face of his higher stamina, somebody’s finger slipped. Each of us had been left wincing on the roar in our ears that created a lingering ringing because the gun went off in our arms. One thing pinched my pores and skin, making me cry out, however I by no means loosened my grip as we struggled.

I had just a few moments to register that the struggle was misplaced on my finish earlier than a determine bathed half in shadow, half in mild, stood above us. I used to be certain it was over, that Elliot had misplaced no matter bizarre gunfight he’d been having, and now Edgar’s flunky would finish me as effectively.

“Hey, fuckface!” got here the scream of a well-recognized voice.

Edgar and I each seemed up in shock, however it was Edgar who was met with a measurement eleven and a half boot slamming into his face with the grotesque crunch and squirt of cartilage and blood. He fell off me, his grip loosening, and I threw the gun away, not wanting something to do with it, as I adopted Edgar ahead.

The person was nonetheless in a daze and will solely wrap his arms round my wrist earlier than I shoved his head again. He’d fallen towards the laborious floor reasonably than the rock, however I nonetheless felt the reverberation of the blow run up his head and into my arms. I didn’t hesitate, doing it once more, and once more, and once more, as laborious as I may handle as his eyes rolled again in his head.

After which abruptly Elliot was there, his arms on my face, forcing me to have a look at him. His eyes had been huge and moist across the rims, however he smiled gently. “Hey. Cease. Don’t. He’s not going to harm anybody, alright? We gained.”

“He…” I started, trying down and discovering Edgar’s head lolling off to the facet after I launched him. “Shit…he lifeless?”

“Don’t suppose so,” Elliot stated, letting go of me and noticeably hesitating earlier than reaching down and urgent his fingers towards Edgar’s neck. After a second, I noticed aid, disgust, and a pain-filled flash over his face earlier than drawing his fingers again. “Alive.”

“Boss?” got here the shrill name from the radio sitting within the dust beside us. “Boss, what’s happening?”

“Shit,” I muttered. “What can we do?”

“Let’s make certain this one can’t rise up once more simply,” Elliot stated, pulling zip ties from his pockets. “And do it higher than they did to us. I’m not making that mistake like they did.”

“What about…” I started and turned to search out the massive man on his facet close by. Half of his neck was a bloody spoil as he lay, staring unblinkingly at us. “Oh shit. E, did you?—”

“Not him,” Elliot stated, rolling Edgar over. “Seize his arms, maintain them collectively for me. Then his legs. Then we’re getting some rope from the tent and actually bundling him up.”

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