Bled Dry by Lou Cadle

Author:Lou Cadle [Cadle, Lou]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-11-20T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Sierra pushed her worry about Dev to the back of her mind. He surely wouldn’t bleed to death in the next half hour, and she wouldn’t leave him alone for longer than that.

In fact, if she had her way, the men in that building would all be dead by then.

She ran to the back corner of the building and pressed herself against the wall, thinking about what she should do. If men had been in the driveway, and there was a broken window, maybe she could also go in that way. A clap of thunder and a lightning flash came together. She left her night vision goggles dangling on her chest. The storm was right on top of them. Why wasn’t it moving away from them? Monsoon storms usually moved quickly.

But then she realized that probably only ten minutes had passed since they left the jail. Battles took real time and twisted it around in the human mind, stretching it out, or making it slide by impossibly fast.

She looked around the corner and saw no one. Stepping out, she scanned the wall. Most of the windows on the ground floor were thin slits that didn’t look like they opened. There was part of a metal fire escape that ended over the only double-hung window. Was that a possible entry point? She saw no one at that window, and walked over to the fire escape, giving the “friend” whistle in case Kelly was within hearing range. The hairs on her neck rose in response to the thought of taking an accidental bullet from her own side.

The end of the fire escape was pretty high, but she was tall. She bent her legs and leapt. Her fingertips touched metal, but she wasn’t nearly close enough to grab on, and she hit the ground again. She stared up, her night vision goggles pushed up to her forehead, and waited for the next lightning strike to illuminate the scene. When it did, she saw the flat section that was made to descend from just below the second floor to the ground level. It couldn’t be that hard to move, could it? They’d want a design that made it easy for panicked people fleeing a fire to push it down.

She flipped the rifle’s safety on, slung the strap over her head and one shoulder, and leapt again, aiming for the very end of the retracted section. This time her hands found the end, and immediately the section started to descend. Noisily. She let go, dropped to the ground, and it retracted.

Because of the noise she had made by moving the fire escape, she hit the ground, curling right up against the building wall. She waited, but no one came out to investigate. Maybe they hadn’t heard.

Okay, good to know about the fire escape. But it didn’t get her closer to the men in the meeting room. The window under the stairs was shut. No light shone through it. She slid the night vision goggles

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