Em nods and unsheathes her KA-BAR as well, moving forward in a ready-to-kill stance.
It is such a contrast to see her fight like this compared to what I saw in the trials. Of course, she was out of her element in the forest and with a hundred other cadets. Here though, she’s the hunter in the world she’s always known. The way her body moves fluidly over the uneven stones, uses the buildings as cover, sweeps the area, and then moves in a matter of moments is impressive.
She honestly makes me look clunky as shit. I’m more of the run-straight-in-and-start-killing kind of a guy.
I flinch and turn my head to the right as I hear Wraith’s machine gun blowing through a stone wall and probably guards somewhere in the mix.
“There goes our cover,” I growl and jerk my head at Emery to up our pace.
“Get down!” Em shouts and my legs instantly give, sending me to my knees. I roll to the side, perching myself up on one leg and lifting my rifle in the next breath.
The whistle of her knife flying through the air ends with a hardythunkand then is followed by the collapse of a body.
She runs over and ruthlessly tears her knife from the guard’s face. Blood spurts, but she doesn’t waste one second. She just wipes the blood on her vest and brushes past me, tapping my shoulder and silently telling me to get the fuck up.
It’d be easier to move if watching her kill didn’t give me a fucking rager. I groan and palm my dick to settle down.
I trail after her and keep my rifle trained everywhere my head turns.
Bullets start lighting up the sky, aimed at the tallest building, as I’m guessing Thomas has been spotted.At least that means he’s okay.I keep my head down and press forward.
“Taking heavy fire on the rooftops, movement spotted in the target building, and the one directly adjacent to it. Target is suspected to be in one of them possibly—” Thomas gets cut off as more gunfire roars.
A beat passes without any more correspondence.
“Volt, are you and Red Turtle inbound to the target?” I say in a low, empty tone as I pull the trigger and put two bullets into a guard’s chest before laying one right between his eyes.
Gage cuts in, completely out of breath. It sounds like he’s running. “Red Turtle didn’t land with me, but we are on track to reconvene at the target building.”
More heavy fire from the machine gun and Wraith’s voice booms over the headsets. “Breached the wall! Mowing down guards, but I need Mori and Morphine to hurry the fuck up!” He’s barely audible with the roar of the bullets exiting his weapon. He’s going to need to reload soon.
Emery sighs before replying, “On our way, asshole.” She takes a hard left and we’re met with four armed men. They must’ve heard us coming because they immediately start firing at us.
My shoulder jerks back with impact, but I take a deep breath and shoot straight. The first guard drops when I blow out his knee, and the second tries to hold down his blood-spraying neck.
The euphoric high pulses through my entire body and a manic laugh rolls from my lips.
Emery throws her first knife into one guard’s thigh, and when the other tries to flee she shoves her knife up his ass.
I burst into laughter. “No fucking way you just did that!”
She does a little victory dance as she pulls out her pistol and blows the thigh dude’s brains out. “I couldn’t just leave you with the story. You have to see it, watch.”
I watch tentatively as the guard tries to pull the knife from his ass. Laughter escapes my lips as I viciously stab the heart of one of the guards I downed.
“I fucking love you,” I say as I rise to my feet and meet her. God I wish I could kiss her right now, but I bonk my helmet to hers and she giggles before pulling the knife out of the poor guy’s ass, and we both slash his throat from either side, effectively decapitating him in one fell swoop.
My heart pounds ridiculously fast as blood trickles around us like rain.
“Love you too, psycho.” She hits me with the butt of her knife, and I watch as she takes the lead once more. I love this crazy, wild side of her. First with the pink smoke in the first mission and now her dark humor? She’ll be the end of me.
Wraith is just one more block over and is already on his knees, a guard behind him with a knife to his throat.
The man shouts, “Drop your weapons or I’ll?—”
I lift my rifle and put a bullet into his wide ass mouth before he can finish that sentence. He flops backward and Wraith just starts cackling. He’s completely covered in blood and dust so he looks insane.
“I fucking told him to just kill me because you’d do that.” He picks up his machine gun once more and nods to the interior of a large building. “Let’s fucking go!”
