Today’s excerpt is from The
Zimo Hunt, Book #2 of the Asps Series.
After monitoring a large al-Qaida camp inside Pakistan, Bear and Dusty
head back to where Kye waits guarding their car. As they get near her location, Dusty spots
trouble. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
NOTE: This will be my last posting for a few
days. Have to make a trip to the
hospital for a bit of repair work on my aging heart.
As the two men
headed toward Kye and the car, they joked about who would have been making the
trip alone the following day to get more water.
They continued to chat from time to time as they descended the high area
they had reached to keep watch on the camp.
About an hour before they reached Kye, Dusty stopped and took a drink of
water. He handed the canteen to Bear,
who asked, “What’s up? This is twice
you’ve stopped for water in the last twenty minutes.”
“We have company
about three hundred feet behind us.
Seems to be just following for now…but I’m not wild about being
stalked.”
That said, Dusty
called Kye, told her about the situation, and added, “Get yourself in position
to take out whoever it is. When we’re
about ten minutes from you, we’ll put it in second gear and hurry along. Maybe he’ll speed up, to the point of being
careless.”
Kye joked, “Will
do—but don’t get killed in the meantime.
I’m not in the mood to break in a new lover.”
When Bear and
Dusty neared Kye and the car, Dusty muttered, “Now, Bear,” and the two men sped
up their pace to just short a running.
Neither man heard the shot that killed the man stalking them, but they
did hear Kye say into her headset, “Guys, he’s not alone, get off your
path…now!”
Dusty and Bear
reacted quickly, as Dusty went down toward the path below, while Bear went
further up the hillside. Both turned and
brought up their rifles as they made their move. They saw four men, and as Dusty started to
sight in on one of them, he dropped from a shot fired by Kye. He quickly adjusted his aim and fired at
another of the men, as shots rang out from their foes. As a shot whizzed by him, Dusty squeezed off
a killing shot, even as Bear was lining up for a second target, after killing
one. Bear shot him, as Kye’s shot also
hit home.
When no further
shots were headed in their direction, Bear sighed. “I’ll go check ‘em out…give me cover.”
A few minutes
later, Bear muttered into his headset, “They’re all dead.”
Dusty was
already walking in his direction. “Start
checking them out for any kind of papers.”
“Ahead of
you. The one at my feet had Chechen
papers. Looks Chechen, too.”
Dusty,
remembering Kye had mentioned that she thought the two who had been in her camp
might have been Chechen, growled, “Just what we need, Chechens stalking
us. Those darn guys are good. Wonder why they didn’t take us out earlier?”
Kye muttered,
“Because they didn’t know who you were.
Nothing on what we’re wearing to give away who we belong to.”
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