Page 279 of Vile Boys

Leave me and save yourself.

Just … leave.

And let me die in peace.

Crystal

Kai and Milotake the lead, knifing down any guard that comes close, while Lana and Nathan provide backup. Milo swings his nunchucks around like a pro, and it honestly makes me wonder how he decided that would be his weapon, but I’m not complaining as none of the guards can get near him.

Caleb’s shooting twice and then chucking his knife at someone in the back to make sure no one tries to come at us. He’s an expert at spotting them before they even have a chance to get near us, and so far I haven’t had to shoot.

The thought of killing people still makes me nauseous, but watching Lana and Penelope shoot like it means nothing gives me strength. I aim at one of the guards headed for us from the side and shoot.

BANG!

It hits him in the foot.

“Whoooo, I didn’t know you could shoot like that!” Milo says enthusiastically before nunchucking the dude right in the balls.

“Me neither,” I retort, laughing it off.

“Kai, behind you!” Lana yells.

Kai turns around and shoves one of his knives straight into the abdomen of one of the guards who was just about to knife him down, and he tears him open from belly to neck.

Jesus.

Blood sprays from his wound, and he sinks to the floor.

“Five,” Kai grits.

“Well, I have six already!” Dylan yells from the other side of the room.

“Fuck him,” Nathan grits. “I’m gonna win this shit.”

“Focus,” Kai tells him.

BANG! BANG!

Lana shoots down two guys who were aiming at Nathan and Kai. “Less talking, more killing.”

“I love it when you’re all bloodthirsty,” Milo muses as we head farther through the casino.

People are still screaming and running for their lives left and right, and it makes it hard to distinguish who is an actual foe and who is an innocent bystander. I don’t want someone’s life on my hands if they don’t deserve to die.

But then I see a guard from behind a pillar, and I point at him. “There!”

Caleb chucks a knife at his face, and it lodges inside the pillar instead because the guy immediately hid again the moment I pointed at him.

“Fuck!” Caleb shouts, and he pulls out even more knives from his coat. “Come here, you little bitch!”

He doesn’t notice the guard coming out of the toilet to his right, so I point my gun at him and shoot.

I miss.

Panic swirls through my veins.

“Caleb!”

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