Suddenly, she heard bootsteps running.Dropping the phone, she picked up Nikoli’s gun.Swinging it around, she cocked it.
Artem raised his hands and came to a running halt.“Don’t shoot, babe!”
“Damn, how did you get here so fast?”she asked as she lowered the weapon.
“I was already out here hunting for you.Sergi texted me.”He walked closer and looked down at Nikoli.“Is he okay?”
“I am,” Nikoli replied as he opened his eyes.“Because your girl is a fucking badass.”
Artem stared at him then he grinned.“I know.Why do you think I am in love with her?”
Briar looked from Artem to Nikoli and shook her head.“Why are you trying to get on my good side?”
“You mean you have one of those?”
Briar peered up to see Felix now and scoffed.“Oh, great.My scaredy-cat cousin has arrived.”
Felix shook his head as he knelt and grabbed Nikoli up like he was a small sack of potatoes, which he certainly wasn’t.He laid him over his shoulder as gently as he could and smirked at her.“Scaredy cats cannot do this, cousin.”Turning, he took a step.Then he halted as he spotted the dead men on the grass.“The fuck?”he exclaimed.“You killed three men, Briar?”
She smirked at him.“Yeah, and that’s why youshouldbe scared of me, cousin.”
Nikoli grunted from Felix’s shoulder then grumbled, “Hurry up Felix, I’m bleeding again.”
“Damn, Nikoli,” Felix griped back.“I just bought this shirt!”
Briar had to snort.“You Russians are a riot.”
“Hey!”a man yelled.
They all looked over.
It was one of the Dmitrcoff brothers and he looked like the other ones...he aimed a gun at them.“You fuckers killed my brothers!”
Felix knelt down while balancing Nikoli on his shoulder and tried to protect him.
Artem dropped his body on top of Briar to protect her.
The armed guy took a shot at them.
A loud but odd scream rippled through the air as someone else came barreling out of the bushes like a running blur and leapt up onto the gun toting man’s back.
Just as he landed on the ground, the gun in his hand went off again.
Raising up, Briar saw that Artem was bleeding.“No!”
Concerned, Felix looked over at them.
“He’s been hit!”Briar kept shaking her head as she turned Artem over.
Artem smiled at her.“It just nicked me.I am okay.”
The running blur of a man got up from where he had dropped on top of the Dmitricoff brother and he looked over at them all.“Are you alright, Briar?”
Raising her head, she gasped when she saw who it was that just saved them from near disaster.“Willy?”
He nodded then glanced down at the man who accidentally shot himself when he went down.“I-I got him.B-but we n-need to run n-now.”
“Run from what?”Felix asked as he hoisted Nikoli up again to carry him.
