Everly's POV
Let’s just hope these mercenaries were also given orders to leave me alive. I thought. Otherwise, this was going to be a very short fight.
I breathed in deeply before letting out the breath of air slowly, then I moved. I shoved to my feet, leaping over the fallen tree I had been ducked behind.
I could hear Sam swear, and his shooting increased, trying to draw attention to him rather than me.
It didn’t matter because they weren’t aiming at me. A couple of gunshots had been fired my way, but that seemed to be out of reflex more than anything else, because the second they realized it was me that had shown myself instead of someone else, they ceased firing my way. Instead, they focused on shooting at Alejandra, Marrek, and Sam. They did not have a clear shot at Quinn, Noelle,
