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I picked up the gun and pointed it at the base of the stairs,sure I put h he was already down and bleeding I had never fired a gun before, but I would do it to put an end to this madness once and for all

Drew tripped and staggered drunkenly down the stairs He had the gun dangling from one hand and the bloody knife in the other One of his shoulders was drooping down at an odd angle and the look on his face was nizable

He lifted the arun and narrowed his eyes at me

“Which one of us do you think is faster, Brysen?”

I didn’t want to find out I curled a finger around the trigger and had to narrow my eyes to focus because wavy lines and black stars were dancing all acrossbetweento concentrate really hard to stay up on my feet

“I don’t want to find out, Drew Hasn’t enough daer twitched on the trigger and I told myself I needed to pull it even if I really didn’t want to

He roared again and I saw the ht before an explosion blasted next to my head I felt hot air buzz across my cheek, swore I could see the bullet as it zipped byI had been shot, I saw a perfectly round hole appear right above one of Drew’s eyes as he toppled forward and landed on his knees He gasped and wheezed as the knife and his gun clattered to the carpet and he pitched all the way forward to land on his face as blood started to trickle out of the bullet hole in his head

I spun around and pro inside the broken doorway clutching a small black pistol

She looked awful Both of her pretty green eyes were ringed in black-and-blue bruises, her nose was bleeding, and she had an ugly gash decorating her cheek She was paler than nor out in stark relief on her nose and cheeks She looked like she’d had the crap kicked out of her, but the gun in her hands was steady and the line on her mouth was hard

When she saw asped when she saw Booker

“I already called Bax He and Race are on the way” She threw the phone to Karsen and told her to call an auard She rabbedlike a lifeline She took the weapon from me and looked at it with a frown