Tall Pines Mysteries: A Mystery/Suspense Boxed Set by Aaron Paul Lazar

Author:Aaron Paul Lazar [Lazar, Aaron Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Published: 2016-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 40

The G-men glanced back at us, and both did a double take when they realized Sky was awake and sitting up. Gere spoke a terse command, his eyes now refocused to the approaching helicopter on our right. “Stay down. All of you.”

Sky slid off the edge of the stretcher, expertly slid the IV needle out of his arm, repositioned the gauze and tape that held the thing in place originally, and stood, unswaying.

I stared in awe. The guy was a machine. I would have passed out with the first glimpse of the needle.

“I’m ex-army.” He walked steadily toward the agents. “Got another gun?”

He joined them at the door, where they pressed a weapon into his hands. I heard him say something like, “Just like my old M16,” but couldn’t be sure with all the noise. He strapped himself to the wall like the others and handled the weapon with familiarity.

The noise of our own chopper was deafening, but when the gunfire started, I grabbed Callie and held on tight.

Holes erupted around us in the casing of the walls, blasting through with frightening regularity. A siren blared, sounding way too much like a “we’re going down” alarm. But the helicopter remained airborne, and the fight continued.

Green took a bullet in his arm, and the windshield on the passenger’s side of the cockpit shattered, leaving a cracked mess through which the pilot squinted, moving his head rapidly from side to side to get a clear view. Green dropped and scooted back against the bulkhead near the stretcher. He grabbed a roll of gauze from the supply kit, rapidly wound it around his arm, tore it with his teeth, and tucked it in. In seconds, he was back at the door, returning fire.

Callie rocked beside me with Beau, her arms wrapped around me this time. “We’ll be fine, Marcie. Don’t cry.”

I hadn’t realized I was sobbing until she pointed it out. Abruptly, I tried to rein in my out-of-control emotions, scrubbing at my cheeks as if I could turn off the waterworks by the mere mechanical motion of my fingers. My words stuttered out. “I’m s…sorry.”

The copter whirled in reaction to a bad hit in the tail section.

Callie smiled through her own tears with trembling lips. “Why…why are you apologizing, you big dummy?”

I cuddled closer to her and loosed an inappropriate laugh. “I don’t know! I’m supposed to be the strong one.” I hiccupped another sob when a particularly bad round of gunfire ripped along the side of the copter over our heads. I certainly didn’t feel very strong at the moment, and wondered if I’d ever rally my courage again.

Gere motioned for us to get lower, but we didn’t need the reminder.

We looked at each other, at the holes in the wall, and slid down to the floor as low as our harnesses would allow, lying with a big dog spread atop our bodies. I slipped one arm through my backpack strap as if it was my proverbial purse. I didn’t

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