I preserve drumming on the wall.

“Yeah,” one other man replies. “Go test it out.”

With my fingers nonetheless tapping, I stay behind the quilt of the crates.

Footsteps sound from across the nook. They cease. Then they proceed forwards. In the direction of me.

I flex my fingers on the bat, shifting it right into a two-handed grip, whereas I await him to get nearer.

Then I take one fast step out.

And slam the bat into the facet of his head.

Shock pulses throughout his face.

But it surely’s already too late.

His hand drops away from the gun he was reaching for. Blood trickles down the facet of his head the place his cranium caved in. He topples backwards, hitting the bottom with a thud. His physique spasms as soon as. Then he goes limp, staring unseeing up on the sky. There’s a shocked expression on his face, even in demise.

“You discover something?” the opposite man calls from across the nook.

The lifeless man stays lifeless on the bottom, not answering his query. I step across the physique whereas approaching the nook once more. Blood slides down alongside the bat and drips on the bottom.

Now, I simply want to attend for the second skilled to return and examine why his accomplice isn’t replying. Then I can?—

A gunshot cracks by the air.

My coronary heart stops.

The gunshot… It got here from contained in the constructing.

Ice spreads by my veins.

Kayla.

Throwing all warning to the wind, I yank out a gun and dash across the nook.

The guard on the door spots me the second I skid across the nook. He yanks up a gun, however I’m already holding mine. I squeeze the set off.

A large weight slams into me from the facet.

My complete physique jerks to the facet, throwing off my intention. The bullet hits the guard within the shoulder. He screams in ache.

I slam shoulder first into the bottom with one of many thugs on prime of me. His arms are wrapped round my chest, however his grip is jostled after we hit the bottom. I twist and hearth once more in the direction of the guard, however he yanks open the door proper on time. The bullet cracks into the metallic door as a substitute. And the guard is gone.

Ramming my elbow into my attacker’s abdomen, I handle to get him to loosen his grip sufficient for me to twist in the direction of him totally. I yank up the gun to shoot him within the face, however the second thug is barreling in the direction of us. Shifting my intention on the final second, I hearth in the direction of the second thug.

He throws himself sideways proper earlier than the bullet tears by the air.

However that transfer purchased the primary man two seconds to lunge for my gun. His meaty arms shut round my wrist, attempting to tug the weapon away from me. I kick my knee up into his facet. It makes him shift his weight sufficient for me to yank out the bat that was trapped between our our bodies.

With a snap of my wrist, I slam the bat into his facet.

A howl of ache rips from his throat, and he jerks sideways from the pressure of the blow.

However the second thug has already reached us now.

Ache shoots by my wrist as he kicks the gun out of my hand.

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