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Seven Barrels Down
In a way, my world has just come to light, and yet it has also ended.
From behind this crazy maniac called MacKey, there is someone that is stepping from outside the woods. Now, you do not even have to light it up for me, that elegant body moving like a tiger through the brush, that is my wife.
I cannot even begin to describe how relieved I am to see her. What else I am seeing is that she has a very rather intimidating gun in her hand, and rather surprising from behind her comes Lewis and Lopez. But how…?
I don't care how…all I care is that she is okay.
After we all get untied, Harrison and Clark make their way to the house to make sure that it is clear. I rise to my feet with the incredible pain shooting to the edges of the bullet, making it feel even deeper; I drop to the floor again. I see as Isabella wants to rush to my side to help me. But, I am not yet done…
So as Lopez moves in on MacKey, I cannot help but smile, "And wh
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