Chapter 41
The mountain offered them no cover. Michael grabbed Ceinwen and pulled her with him toward the upslope, and the two lay flat. Jianjun followed.
Jake and the other deputy, Rosenfeld, had drawn their sidearms as they dropped to the ground and tried to figure out where the shot had come from.
“Drop your weapons,” a voice shouted from below. They couldn’t see him. “We don’t want to kill anyone else. We only want the pearl.”
Deputy Grayson had carried a rifle, one Jake and Rosenfeld might need. Rosenfeld made a sudden break for it, but as he ran, a shot was heard and he fell, hit in the leg.
“We warned you!” the voice said.
Jake saw that the shot came out of a patch of sagebrush on the downside of the mountain. He returned fire over and over. As he did, Michael crept then sprin
