“Oh, God!” She silently prayed for help. Seeing Mister Ellis go down like he had, though, she had little expectation of aid or of the cavalry arriving in time to save any of them.
Now resigned, she let out a sigh and gripped the pistol. She waited for the moment when she’d have to use it.
* * *
Alec angrily shook his head at the tragic absurdity of it all – where a teenage girl and her little brother might have to fight for their lives against men trying their best to kill anyone not on their own side – and returned his attention to their front.
Peering intently ahead, he thought he could detect movement. Perhaps two or three people, all trying to inch their way closer to where he and Annie and Darren had gone to ground. To drive them back, he fired off two more bursts from his M4. He
