Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven
Lanny scowled, lit a smoke, and motioned for Dryden to go around the far side of the barn. Dryden nodded and quietly began stepping his way around. Lanny then waited twenty seconds before sending Vance the opposite way. He further waited another full minute before following Vance. There was still about a half-hour of gray light before the dawn.
Dryden’s voice shouted “Hey!” from behind the barn. Two seconds later the kid ran around this side, almost right into Vance. Startled, he stopped in his tracks and began raising a handgun.
“Don’t even try it!” Vance said to him, his firearm already leveled at the kid’s head. The kid was smart enough to lower his weapon.
But not smart enough to drop it. Instead, he took off running across the field.
He almost mad
