PROLOGUE
He had no more than a few moments to
act.
Her life depended on his reaction.
He did not hesitate.
He dived sideways like an accomplished
soccer goalkeeper - arms and legs stretched fully, chest and torso to the
front, and back towards her - oblivious to the danger, oblivious to the certain
risk to his life and limb.
He had to protect her at any cost.
What happened next happened in seconds,
literally.
He heard two sets of sounds that were so
familiar to him – gunfire. They were so closely spaced that one was
almost indistinguishable from the other.
First, the three shots that came from an
automatic. The bullets pierced and lodged themselves in his stomach and upper
abdomen while he was still airborne.
He landed heavily on the RCC dais on his
right shoulder, instantly dislocating the ball-and-socket joint. The
consequential pain was like the kiss of a maiden in comparison to the searing
pain in the stomach.
Before falling unconscious, he heard the
second set of gunfire. It was the combined rapid staccato of multiple AK-47s
firing simultaneously.
He heard a whimper and a thud.
He smiled before slipping into a
blissful and painless unconscious state.
***
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