Her Name is Beth: Alone: Book 5 by Maloney Darrell

Author:Maloney, Darrell [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Dave instantly went into wartime mode. He’d been fired upon several times in Fallujah, and his training saved his life.

Use the sun to your advantage. Wait for the best shot. Make yourself invisible. If hiding behind a vehicle, keep the engine between you and the bad guys.

He had the sun at his back, since the bad guys were approaching from the west. But it was too high in the sky now to hide his movements.

He slowly rose until he could see his attackers, headed his way like idiots down the middle of the highway. They obviously weren’t combat veterans. If they were, they slept through basic infantry training. The part where it said not to bunch up. To put space between yourself and your comrades to make yourselves a harder target.

These guys were just fools, taking a shot at someone and then strolling toward them as though they had no care in the world.

Dave had an idea.

If they maintained their present course, they would walk past a gasoline tanker in the right hand lane. For sixty feet or so they would be blind to the south side of the road. Dave could change position, make it to the tree line, then line up his shot and wait for them to walk into his field of fire.

He might not get them all.

But he’d certainly even the odds a bit.

They still hadn’t seen him, crouched behind the Impala.

They appeared to be laughing and joking as they walked along. One of them nonchalantly walked with his rifle pointed at the ground.

Dave couldn’t believe this. How on earth did they survive this long, being this stupid?

He could only surmise that they thought they’d killed him. That they didn’t see the bullet hit the mirror. That they took the shot and saw Dave fall and were under the impression he went down behind the car.

They were probably celebrating their kill and coming to Dave to relieve him of his weapons.

But they weren’t getting Dave’s weapons. Not on this particular day. Dave would be happy to share some of his ammo with them.

But he was keeping his guns.

He patiently waited until the men were even with the rear of the huge tanker, then scampered across the shoulder and into the woods some thirty yards away.

He held his rifle above his body and slid into the dirt in a move that would have made any big leaguer proud.

And in one fluid movement he spun over, face down and looking toward the highway. He assumed the prone position and aimed his rifle at a point just past the front of the tanker.

He only had seconds to spare. The three came back into view, still separated by several feet and staggered.

Dave almost took his shot, then realized if he waited he could get a two-fer. Once again, he couldn’t believe his luck.

Because the men were staggered, Dave’s target angle was getting sharper and sharper with each step the men took. At some point two of them would line themselves up perfectly.

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