Page 17 of Second Shooter

“What do you want me to do?”

“Put the bus in neutral. Push it back through the barrier if you have to. They have put glyphs on it. This next part is going to be messy. Watch your back and maybe let your brother know where we are so he doesn’t worry.”

She got out of the car and stood straight before she walked onto the bus. Two of the Elite were in there, trying to sniff outCori. Another had a different girl in his grip. Win smiled, bit her cheek and spit on the one with the other teenager. He looked at her. “You are expressing contempt, beta?”

“Not a beta, but you are locked here until you get a bus home, bitch.” She reached up and grabbed the other ones by the ears and hauled them off the bus as they yelped and shouted. When she got them off the bus, Win threw them to the ground. She crooked her fingers, and the one wearing her blood lifted and was levitated off the bus.

The young woman was still in his grip and sobbing, so she told him, “Let go.”

“No. She’s close enough.”

“Let go, or your head comes off.”

Cori shouted, “Megan, close your eyes and look away.”

The male was glaring at her with red eyes. “No. You don’t scare me—”

She grew to her full height, her skin tearing as she went from five-five to six-eight.

She whispered softly as her clothing was covered with blood. “Do I scare you now?”

She used her own blood to create a blade and took his head off.

She got Megan away from his body and back onto the bus.

Lyric was astonished. “Wow. Okay. Moving the bus.”

“They have bound it, so I hope you are strong. You are going to have to push.”

“On it. I have the kids; you get the Elite.”

Win looked at the nine males left. She sprayed blood across them to hold them where she could get them and charged forward. She may have been smiling as she met blade with blade and used the blood of the fallen as chains and arrows to destroy those who ran from her.

Win took care of them and then helped Lyric push the bus, but it wasn’t moving fast.

Helicopters began to land. Big ones. Rayd and his pack came out, and Lyric waved.

Win watched and waited for the energy around her to solidify. There was a pulse, and an Elite formed next to her. She turned and pounded her fist into his face, sending him stumbling back to disappear back to the Stronghold.

The kids were split into groups and loaded onto the helicopters. Cori looked her way and paused. Instead of staying with her friends, she ran to Win and whispered, “Three minutes. On the dot.”

“You need a shower, Cori. I am all bloody.”

“Don’t care. I am so sorry. You were right. How did they know where I was?”

Win nodded. “Yes, how did they know? Stay here. I have to look for something. I am feeling a bit sick.”

She looked to find a signature on one of the bodies, and she found the phone on one, pulling it away from the armless torso.

She thumbed through the messages and found one that made her nearly crush the phone. She went to her car and got her phone. She dialled and whispered, “Hey, Maggie, I would start running now. If you are still there when I get home, you are not going to be happy about it. I will pull out your omega and stake you naked in the middle of the Stronghold. Are we clear?”

Maggie started sobbing and hung up.

Cori said softly, “I wondered how she could afford that new house. She sold me?”

“She tried. When the Stronghold finds out what happened, they will blame her. They lost ten warriors in one day. They won’t forgive that. Let’s let her reap what she sowed.”

“Mom and Dad are going to be heartbroken.”

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