Another blast from downstairs.
My laser light started shaking.
Zzsst!Zzsst!
The guy I had my light pointed at went down.
I could hear barks, snarls, commotion downstairs.
Then I heard glass shattering from beside me.
I looked that way to see Hutch shoving shards of it away from the window frame with the butt of his gun.
He changed magazines and looked at me.
“Stay here until I tell you to come down,” he ordered.
I opened my mouth, but he slid out the upper story window in his pajama pants and a Henley and nothing else.
But his rifle.
I watched out my window, seeing him on the move, at first relieved the fall didn’t break his legs.Then I did it stunned as Hutch made short work of running from one to the other to the other of the men on the ground, aiming his rifle at them at the same time grabbing their guns and tossing them out of reach.
After he did that, he quickly moved to the front of the house, rifle up, and he didn’t fuck around being stealthy.
He disappeared under the roof of the porch.
Within a couple of seconds, the barks and snarls stopped, and all I heard was puppies howling.
“Please let my man be okay.Please let our babies be okay.Please.Please,” I chanted, looking this way and that to see if I could find Hutch.
Nothing.
I kept watching, hyperventilating, shivering uncontrollably.
My body jerked violently when I heard a shotgun blast from the other side of the house.
Then another one.
My head whipped that way.“Oh my God, no.”
I was about to scramble to that side of the house to ascertain if I could see anything out of one of those windows when I noticed movement out of Hutch’s window.
I squat-walked over there quickly and looked out.
Hutch was dragging a body across the ground.
He dumped it next to another guy who was writhing.
He tossed the extra gun he held aside, again well out of arm’s reach, and calmly walked to one of the men who was trying to crawl away.
He grabbed him by the ankle, dragged him across the ground and dumped him next to his buddies.
I heard him say something, though I didn’t hear the words, before he went to the fourth guy and dragged him to the others.
Then he walked to the house, and not long later, the fifth guy was being dragged down the steps by my man.
“Mabel!” Hutch boomed after he dumped him with the rest.
