Chapter 061
The smoke was still thick when the shooting started. White haze rolled through the aisles of the warehouse, clinging to the shelves in pale drifts, and somewhere inside it, a second figure moved. Soren caught the muzzle flash before he caught anything else, two bursts of orange light cutting through the murk, and he was already moving, dropping low and shifting his position as the rounds punched through cardboard boxes and sent splinters of wood spinning into the air. He returned fire. Controlled, deliberate, sweeping the barrel toward the sound of the shots. The bullets chewed through shelving and packaging, and neither of them hit anything that mattered. Then both guns ran dry at the same moment. The double click of empty chambers rang out in the sudden silence, two hollow sounds nea
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