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Chapter 43

The girl in the lead hitbewildered I’d never actually had a just-turned vained it had to be confusing "Kill her!" roared Oskar’s voice fro in the girl’s overloaded brain told her she was supposed to listen to Oskar She raised her handgun and shot razed my arm Unluckily, it was prettyshot

I screeched with pain and dropped low, pulling Molly’s table over sideways Feeling the pain in nore it The table landed with a crash Inspired, I pushed it as fast as I could toward the attacking vas of the table hit the lead girl in the ankle, sending her stuirl behind her It must have caused a chain effect, because I heard Oskar shouting obscenities

"Ti at the belts "Can you wiggle out?" Behind orously I’d known intellectually that she would be fine, but I still felt soht in my chest release "Shadow!" I yelled "Can you buy us so only for the first few steps--across the rooun at ain

"You don’t want to shootto help your friend Molly Reirl peered over the side of the table, confirirl strapped to it was familiar "Molly?" she said tentatively "I don’t understand--"

"I know, Harper," Molly said, as Oskar continued to shout orders fro on and scraht behind Harper, who still had a gun pointed at un hand just before it fired I felt the bullet whiz hars and turned on the shooter, sinking her teeth into the girl’s ankle She yowled

Molly hadbelts, which had to hurt like hell with the bullet in her leg "We gotta go," I yelled over the chaos

"Not without them!" Molly cried

"What do you want me to do?"

"Get them out of here!"

There was fresh fire in her voice, and I suddenly understood She wanted to take Oskar out herself, a sentiment that I could appreciate, even if she wasn’t exactly instilling confidence into convince four are kids to follow me out of this joint? "Tell them to trust me, then!"

"Hailey! Taylor! Louisa! Harper!" Molly roared, in such a coet what this asshole told you Drop the guns and follow irls were crowded around the bottleneck I’d made with the hallway, and they were obviously about to lose it Tere already crying, and the other two had tre to scream a new set of orders They were currently huical imperative to obey him, but it contributed to the overall chaos