Hide Away by Sean Monaghan

Author:Sean Monaghan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Triple V Publishing

Chapter Forty-Two

From the road came the sound of a car heading north. Surprising amount of traffic for such a remote part of the country.

Wright didn’t stop. He changed direction. Headed for where he’d seen the flash.

He used the pistol. Fired. Fired again.

Sidestepped.

Kept firing until he’d emptied the magazine.

Kept sidestepping.

He tossed the pistol aside. Fired the rifle. One-handed. It was an autoloader so he could practically use it like a big pistol.

He kept sidestepping and firing.

And then the rifle was empty.

He could see the guy now. Sprawled on the ground.

Ten yards off.

Wright slowed. Crouched.

Out of ammo now. If there was a fifth one around, then he needed a new strategy. Needed to get to this guy and get his weapon.

“It’s all right,” another voice called. Farrell. On his left. Back toward the road.

“What?” Wright said. He saw her now, through the IR glasses. Coming toward him from the direction of the knoll.

“You got ‘em,” she said. “Got ‘em all. I don’t see any others.”

“You came down here,” Wright said, walking over.

“Couldn’t leave you to do this on your own.”

“And Lawton?”

“Back at the house. Strict instructions to shoot anything that moves.”

“She’ll do that, for sure.”

Farrell was approaching him. “We’ll have to leave here,” she said. “Looks like you might have wrecked both the vehicles.”

“Yep. I think Lawton’s cop car is still drivable.”

Wright looked around. The mountains beyond were ghostly beautiful. The sky had the slightest blue tint to its blackness.

“Good,” Farrell said. “About the car.”

“How did you see anything?” Wright said.

“Night vision goggles. The cops had taken my things, but I got one of my bags back before we left. No weapons, but the cash and the goggles and a change of underwear.”

“That’s always important.” Intriguing that she hadn’t mentioned the goggles earlier. Perhaps not intentional.

“I took them from the assassin,” she said. “Didn’t know they would come in handy so soon.”

“I get it.” Wright touched the set he was still wearing.

“Let’s go get her and get out of here,” she said. “There’ll be more coming.”

“Is this a bottomless pit?” Wright went over and checked the guy he’d just shot. Not a guy. A woman. Mid-thirties with short cropped hair.

“Could be bottomless,” Farrell said.

“You must have really wronged them.”

“They wronged me.”

“This is all defensive,” Wright said. “This is the tiger by the tail thing. The bear backed into the deepest part of its cave.”

“Could be. Really there’s just me.”

“But you have key information on them. Enough that’s worth risking, what now, seven lives?”

First the execution outside the hardware store, then the two killed when the first truck drove into the stream near the hospital, now four here. Though not all of those were dead.

He was fifty-fifty on whether to take care of that. If these people had an army, no sense in sending people back to them.

Wright took out the second guy’s phone and used it to dial Lawton. He’d glimpsed her number somewhere. And these were plain phones. Simply for receiving instructions and sending responses. No apps and nothing fancy. Kind of thing this kind of organization would be buying by the boxload.

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