The Piper Revolution Boxset: An Urban Fantasy Trilogy by Giselle Ava

Author:Giselle Ava [Ava, Giselle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-01T22:00:00+00:00

Montgomery Captured

Stirling throws open the door of the van and we step out onto a dark elementary school carpark. Night has fallen heavy and thick; it will do us well. I draw my pistol, shaking the dust onto the gravel. Percy joins us outside, spitting out his cigarette and crushing it. Several tall spotlights illuminate the school grounds, the quiet parking lot, a guard post.

“Stirling, with me,” I say, striding to the makeshift guard post. The headlights from our van illuminate the small tent. There’s only one man inside there, reclining on a chair behind a desk. A single lantern sits on the table. Stirling and I aim our pistols at him.

The young man looks up at us and his eyes go wide. “Excuse me?” he says, rising from his seat and grabbing the rifle that’s leaning up against the table. He steps out into the light, raising the weapon at us clunkily. He’s no more than twenty years old. What’s he doing here?

“Put down the weapon,” I tell him.

He obliges, letting it crash to the ground.

Stirling walks up to the man and forces him to his knees while I stand in front, my pistol aimed at his face. The spotlights reflect off the sweat on his forehead as he looks up at me.

“Where’s Montgomery,” I say.

“He’s in one of the classrooms,” the young man says in a breath, suddenly averting his eyes. There’s clattering from the tent as Nicholson searches the desk. I divide my attention between him and the man, and Stirling’s pistol burning his temple. “Inside the building behind me, third door on the left. It’s not very well guarded; you’ll have no problem.” He swallows hard, his eyes darting to Stirling’s pistol, then back at me. “Please don’t kill me.”

“Where are they keeping the prisoners?” Stirling says.

“Go around the side of the building,” the man says. “They have it all set up there. Like cattle, there’s just fences all over the place, and they’re in there. I promise you I’m telling the truth. I was sent to watch over here recently. I wouldn’t be here if I had a choice.”

Stirling looks at me.

From my pocket I withdraw a silencer and fit it to the barrel of my pistol. The young man is watching me, tears forming in his eyes. I notice him quiver in Stirling’s grip, but Stirling fought in the war, Stirling is a strong man with metal beneath his skin, and this young man is not. I affix the silencer and aim my pistol at the man’s head.

You wouldn’t kill him, says the whine.

My finger caresses the cold trigger.

We can’t take any chances, not this time.

“Close your eyes,” I tell him.

“Please don’t—”

There’s the whisper of a bullet leaving a gun and the man falls face-first onto the gravel, blood dribbling out of his forehead. I detach the silencer and slide it back into my coat. Stirling spits on the dead kid. Standing on his own, Walter glances at me and then at the boy, and he says nothing.

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