Chapter 93 Adam
Adam
The first shots cracked through the hall like thunder. Tile shattered, sparks flaring as rounds chewed the walls.
“Contact—south entrance!” Hawk’s voice roared through comms.
“Hold the hall!” I snapped, shoving Raine toward the corner where the patients lay. Her eyes burned at me, steady, but she obeyed, crouching low and shielding the woman’s fragile body with her own.
I turned back, Glock up, and fired three controlled bursts. A masked man dropped in the doorway, his rifle clattering to the floor. Two more shoved past him, spraying wild.
Blade was already moving, knife flashing in one hand, pistol in the other. He cut them down with surgical precision, his blade sinking deep into one throat as his gun barked twice into the other’s chest.
“Logan!” I barked.
“I’ve got it!” he snarled, sliding into position to cover the side hall. His pistol snapped off clean shots, dropping another man before he could flank us.
More boots thundered outside. Reinforcements. Heavily armed. This wasn’t a scare tactic. They meant to bury us here.
“Hawk, Russ—status!”
“Rear’s hot!” Hawk growled over gunfire. “They’re pushing heavy, but we’re holding!”
Russ’s voice was calm but tight. “Boone’s pulling vehicles around. We’ll have maybe ninety seconds before they cut us off completely.”
Ninety seconds. Not enough. But it would have to be.
“Blade, Logan—cover fire!” I barked. “Hawk, push through and clear us a lane! Russ, get Boone ready to roll hot!”
Gunfire erupted like a storm. My men moved like they’d been born for it—precision, violence, control. But it wasn’t enough to win. This wasn’t about winning.
It was about buying time.
I dropped another hostile, then spun back toward Raine. She was crouched over the woman, one arm steady on her pistol, the other cradling the victim’s head. Her hair clung damp to her cheek, but her eyes—God, those eyes—were fire.
The sight hit me harder than any bullet. She wasn’t just surviving this. She was fighting it her way.
And I swore right then—I’d level the whole damn city before I let them take her.
“Two minutes!” I roared. “Get them moving, now!”