Burn Out (Kristi Helvig) by Kristi Helvig

Author:Kristi Helvig
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781606844809
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: 2014-04-07T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter THIRTEEN

THE LASER HIT THE FIRST CASE ON THE WALL, SHATTERING IT to bits.

“What the—?” James dropped the gun, as if it were on fire.

Footsteps pounded down the hallway outside, and I hesitated a second before shoving The Obliterator into my bra. I scrambled toward B.K. but didn’t get there in time.

Kale burst into the room, gun drawn, swearing up and down about having to run down the hall on a bum leg. Markus and Britta followed him. At least they hadn’t given her a gun too. She would have shot first and asked questions later. Kale looked from James to me, appearing confused that neither of us had a gun in hand. I stood about a foot from James, with B.K. on the ground between us.

“What in the holy hell is going on in here?” he asked.

“I accidentally fired the gun when I got it out of the case,” I said, bending to pick it up while keeping a hand over my chest, so my lethal right boob didn’t roll out onto the floor.

Kale looked around the room, frowning. His eyes rested on the center case right behind me, then fell on James. “Is that what happened?”

James still looked shaken. “Yes, sir. She scared the crap out of me.”

“We better get moving,” I said. Markus’ eyes met mine with a steely gray stare. He didn’t believe me. He couldn’t have known what happened, but he sure didn’t believe my version of the story. His gaze traveled down to my chest and my larger right breast. Only Markus would notice that, the perv.

I ignored him and pushed my way through the group and into the hallway. What did happen? There’s no way James could have fired the gun, unless he was vibrating at the exact speed as me—an almost statistical impossibility.

Kale hadn’t been able to activate the guns when he had tried, and I had no doubt that Markus and Britta had given it a shot while we were back here. Which means the fact that James fired it was no fluke. I stopped in my room and grabbed a brown satchel, then removed T.O. from my bra. I placed it into the smaller inner compartment of the bag. As soon as I zipped the pocket closed, the seam disappeared and became invisible. No one would know it was there. I slung it over my head, with the strap diagonal across my body so that my injured ribs were on the opposite side. The others might be suspicious that I’d taken to wearing a bag, but I couldn’t help that. This weapon needed to stay safe.

“When’s it gonna be night again? They’ll have to go away when the storms start, right?” Britta moaned.

“Not for a few hours yet.” Kale stretched. “Be patient.”

Markus leaned down and picked something up off the floor. “We shouldn’t be too patient. I’m only saying that because this fell from the door when the last bomb hit. It looks sort of important.” He held up a screw.

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