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Falling forward, I collapsed into a protective tuck.
I didn’t feel the bullet when it penetrated my flesh, but the gunshot resounded throughout my body in the enclosed space. My ears rang with it, even though my hands had been and were still covering them. Eyes closed… I was afraid to see the damage, what additional punishment awaited me.
Come on, Red, Glenn growled in my head. Suck it the f**k up, or you and Addy both die.
So I did.
I saw blood, much more than had wept from the dead Blake Tucker, wet and lurid in the stark cone of white artificial light. But it wasn’t mine.
The CO’s wide eyes saw the same blood seeping across his khaki uniform as he looked down at his chest. His mouth moved, but if sounds came out I couldn’t hear them. And I didn’t want to. Blood frothed from his
