Page 154 of Rangers Last Promise

“Down!”

We hit the floor.

Glass explodes inward.

Hampton reaches for the file box.

“No!”

I grab Mara and drag her behind the steel table as bullets tear into the room.

Wolf and Trigger return fire through the doorway.

Sheriff Tate shouts into his radio.

“Shots fired! North side!”

Hampton looks at me from behind the cabinet.

His face has gone pale.

“They found us.”

“Who?”

“The men who took Mara’s key.”

Mara raises her weapon.

“Then let's go ask them for it back.”

I look at her.

She looks at me.

“No.”

Her eyebrows rise.

“I didn't say anything.”

“You were about to.”

Despite the bullets hitting the building around us, I hear Trigger laugh.

Mara smiles.

“You're catching up, Doc.”

Then she moves toward the door.

And because Grant clearly cursed me before he died, I follow.

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MARA

“Stay behind me.”