“What—”
Bullets flew from the robot, spraying across the wall behind me. I shot off toward the kitchen, ducking down behind the counter as gunfire sounded throughout the house.
“How many fucking bullets does this thing have?” I shouted into the phone.
“More than you can outrun,” he mused. “Bet you wish you were in your panic room right now.”
“The only reason I need a panic room is because you put a killer robot in my house!” I shouted.
When the robot rounded the corner, I took off at a dead sprint for a room across the house. I made it just inside the door and slammed it shut when the robot peppered the walls with bullets.
I crouched down behind the bed, covering my head as best as possible. “Knight, get your ass in here and fix this!”
“Wish I could, man. But I guess we know what happens now when you don’t listen to me.”
“Screw you! This is my wedding night!”
“Yeah, sorry it’s going to end like this.”
There was no way I was going out because of some small robot that spewed bullets at me. The whole fucking thing was insane. Getting to my feet, I watched for the spray of bullets and made a run for it when it was far enough away from the wall.
I only had one chance at this. Sliding across the floor, I grabbed my gun from under the couch and blasted the robot with bullets until the damn thing blinked furiously a few times and then died.
Breathing a sigh of relief, I ran over to our bedroom and slammed my foot into the wall beside the door over and over again until I broke through both sides of the drywall.
“Blake?”
“Are you okay?” she asked. “What was all that gunfire?”
“Knight’s killer robot.”
Rolling her eyes, she started tearing the drywall on her side. “Just get me out of here. The last thing I want is to be in this death trap one minute more.”
I nodded and started tearing at the wall, but from somewhere, I heard Knight shout. Striding back to the couch, I snagged my phone off the floor.
“What?”
“What the hell did you just do?”
“What do you mean? I put an end to your death device.”
“Please tell me you didn’t shoot it.”
“Of course I did?—”
“Get Blake and get the fuck out of the house now!”
I knew that tone and didn’t bother to question him a second later. Reaching through the wall, I grabbed Blake and hoisted her through the hole. As we raced past the killer robot, smoke and red lights blinked furiously.
And I knew there would be no coming back to this house.
“Run!” I shouted, shoving her through the door.
Jeff was just walking up the steps when I tackled him to the ground just as the whole fucking house exploded in one fiery ball that sent all three of us flying through the air.
I landed on my back with a thump. All the air that used to be in my lungs was now long gone. I struggled to breathe, to even think, as the night sky turned bright orange.
Finally, after a few seconds, I rolled over and saw Blake doing pretty much the same thing.
