Diggs could not see Dawson anymore, but knew the man must’ve run for cover under the onslaught of bullets coming from King. King gave Diggs one quick, worried glance, and then activated the comp system. In Diggs’ ear, he heard his teammate’s desperate voice, “Diggs is down. He needs medical attention now. Dawson is in the rafters, he’s got a rifle. He’s trying to kill us. Watch yoursix.”
“Dawson?” came Juarez’svoice.
King answered quickly, as he did a cross roll and ducked behind a crate. “Confirmed. He’s moving to the south. I think I nicked him with a bullet. He got me. Diggs is hit in the stomach. Dawson is hostile. Approach as athreat.”
King dropped to his side, using his arm on his non-injured side to begin pulling himself toward Diggs. A bullet chinked into the ground and through concrete less than 2 inches from King’s face. King scrambled back against the crates. “He’s gonehigh!”
Diggs lay there exposed, and suddenly he realized Dawson’s plan. He was going to use Diggs to draw out the rest of the team and pick them off one by one. Desperately he tried to make his arms work, anything so that he could crawl behind cover, but he couldn’tmove.
Suddenly he heard a soft, feminine voice on his other side, and Diggs realized that his worst nightmare had just come tolife.
Audra.
