The Marines Laughed at the Quiet Nurse — Until Their Sniper Went Down and She Picked Up His Rifle
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Chapter 21 / 28
PART 21
So I aimed low.
One round shattered the bike’s engine block.
The Engineer dove, rolled, and vanished behind stone.
Miller grinned.
“You just made him walk home mad.”
“No,” I said. “I made him walk toward the patrol we staged last night.”
Miller turned slowly.
“What patrol?”
On the ridge above the Engineer, two figures rose from behind the rocks.
Navy Special Warfare.
My team.
The team Captain Vance didn’t know was in the valley.
The team I was never supposed to need.
They took the Engineer without a shot.
The canyon fell into a stunned, ringing quiet.
Then Briggs started laughing.
May you like
Not because anything was funny.
Because he was alive and too young to know what else to do.
