Page 115 of Only One More Lie

Heath was shooting at them!

She glanced ahead. Saw Juniper motioning toward them as she stood in the center of the field.

Staying out in the open seemed like a terrible plan.

Andi trudged through the snow anyway, trying to get to the rest of the gang. Part of her didn’t care. Not if Duke was dead.

Washe dead? Could he have survived that gunshot?

More bullets rang out behind her.

But Heath was apparently a terrible shot, perhaps more skilled with a knife.

Just when she didn’t think she could run a step farther, Andi finally reached the rest of the group.

She sucked in icy breaths that hurt her lungs.

“Juniper, what’s your plan?” Ranger paused, his jaw muscle thumping with tension.

“You’ll see.” She glanced around.

There was nothing to see. Only a few random reindeer wandering about.

“We should see if we can get to the lodge.” Ranger sounded no-nonsense. “Before it’s too late.”

“He’ll just find us there and hunt us down one by one,” Juniper stated.

“And what’s he going to do right here?” Mariella asked. “He’s going to make human snowmen out of us or something.”

Andi shivered at the thought.

She glanced up.

Saw Heath had reached the fence and started to climb over.

It was only a matter of time before he reached them. Before they became easy targets. Targets that even an unskilled marksman could hit.

Oh, Lord . . . help us. Please! Be with Duke also. I’m begging You. Please!

“I don’t know what you all were thinking,” Heath muttered as he lumbered through the snow drifts toward them. “But thanks for sticking together and making this easy on me.”

He was going to kill them all, wasn’t he?

And Gibson was probably still ten minutes away, at least.

There was no one to help them.

Nowhere to hide.

They’d made a fatal choice by coming out here, Andi realized. Why had Juniper led them this way? Was she in on this also?

CHAPTER 62

Duke moaned as he sat up.

He gripped his chest, trying to pinpoint the pain. Where had the bullet pierced his body?

He glanced down, searching for the blood. For the wound.

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