Marcus, deeply concerned, agreed. “Indeed. They seem to be tracking us, and we can’t shake them off.”

“We need to understand why, or we’ll remain at a disadvantage,” Trenton noted, as the enemy’s footsteps grew louder.

Marcus murmured a hypothesis. “One of us has been tracked; that’s how they’re trailing us.”

Trenton, echoing Marcus’s suspicion, questioned, “But who could it be?”

Marcus, casting a glance toward the direction Millie and Shera had taken, had a sudden revelation.

Suddenly, a barrage of bullets rained down upon them, scattering shrapnel in every direction. Marcus and Trenton, like characters in a gritty war novel, instinctively dove for cover to shield themselves from the deadly storm.

Seizing the brief respite granted by their enemies’ reloading, Marcus sprang into action with lightning speed. His bullet found its mark, tearing through one man’s chest and continuing its deadly trajectory to pierce the heart of the unfortunate soul standing behind him.

bullet, and the fates of

where flickering flames painted a vivid portrait of a fierce battle. Her

distant firefight to something

same blades of grass had nearly sent Shera stumbling. The

the firefight, Shera knelt and secured the insubordinate grass with a simple knot on

catch you?” Shera urged with an

reluctantly tore her gaze away from the distant conflict and resumed her forward sprint. But, in a cruel twist of fate, after just a step or more, she stumbled and fell headlong, as though the

pierced the

A ‘s L I B R A R

the fall was far more brutal than any previous tumbles, as she experienced an agonizing sensation in her belly, akin to the merciless thrust of

cunning

to become a captive or a target?”

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