You Hit My Heart by Kylie Stanford

Joyce hid behind a boulder, and she intended to leave her current position.

She moved carefully, inch by inch, creeping up behind another boulder. These stones were very hard and sharp, and when she put her hands on it, she felt like her hands would be cut at any minute.

She thought about the time, and Franklin might need at least another half hour or so before they could arrive.

It was such a long time actually. She felt like every minute and every second had been infinitely elongated.

"Joyce. You give me what you have, and I'll leave you alive. Just come out! You can't hide for all day!"

Ricky shouted again, he wanted to distract Joyce and lure her out for a quick battle.

He didn't want to delay too long in case the police might have fixed their systems and it would be too late for they to retreat.

“You throw your stuff out and into the open. I'll have my people stand aside and give you time to leave. How is that?" Ricky looked from side to side, repeatedly testing the waters.

As long as there was any movement, he would be able to roughly determine Joyce's location.

"Creak—"

Suddenly, he heard something.

back nervously and immediately raised

it was me.

spoke up to

talk!" Ricky's face paled and he was just about to stop the killer from speaking, but unfortunately it

a muffled "Bang", the

pierced by a bullet, his blood splattered everywhere, and his expression was painfully

he fell heavily

all crouched

"Stupid."

front of him before he dared to shout

bold enough to speak up with no

Joyce, which was well deserved. The rest of the Killers looked afraid and whispered, "This woman has got quite an extraordinary hearing. Let's deal with her more carefully.” They had been in the business for quite a long time now, and they were quite good at it, but they really couldn't figure out how could there be such a woman with such great marksmanship? Who the hell was she? "She's in the southeast. Everyone to the southeast, but also be careful since she might sneak around to

source of the gunshot just now, he could already