“What the hell is he doing?” Nick asked and looked up trying to keep sight of Dean.
“Foreplay,” Kriss answered seriously.
There was a shotgun blast from the left and they both looked over to see Steven standing over Jewel with the smoking weapon in his hands. Jewel was lying on the ground, her right side scratched up from the rocks where she’d landed.
“You two okay?” Nick called out to them.
Jewel nodded, “Just dandy… how are you?”
Steven immediately kneeled next to Jewel and helped her up.
Something landed on the ground a few feet away and Kriss turned his head toward the sound. Nick also turned around just in time to see a dismembered leg fall into the brush about twenty feet away. One more appendage fell to the ground and Kriss glanced up with a smirk on his face.
Suddenly someth
