Chapter 77

Max

I spun around as soon as I heard the sound. It wasn’t loud. To anyone not trained like me, they wouldn’t have even heard it let alone know that it was a silencer. I watched as Ivy dove to the ground. I pulled my gun and ran in her direction, firing shots at car the shots were coming from. The tires squealed as it fishtailed a little before finally righting and driving off.

When I was sure that there was no more threat to either Ivy or myself, I looked at her on the ground. Bending down beside her I put one hand behind her head and shook her body with my other. “Ivy,” I shook a little harder, “can you hear me?” She didn’t stir, she didn’t make any noise. It didn’t look like she had been shot but I couldn’t be sure because of the lack of light around us. She was breathing though. “Tesoro,” I whispered the term of endearment that I used when we were teens. I had thought I was so slick back then because she had melted the first time I used it. I find