If it weren’t for her damn phone.
As soon as it blared, Ray made the mistake of glancing at the shadow and immediately cursed herself for it. She saw the shadow pause and they both her knew her cover was blown. It took a moment for them to jerk into action. Ray’s movement was faster than the shadow’s when she grabbed a hold of the spoon in her hand and threw it right at the shadow that lurked in the corner of her open window. At the very second, from the very direction she’d thrown her spoon in, a knife came hurling at her.
Ray didn’t have time to think, let alone breathe, as she ducked and grabbed her phone. The knife buried itself in her headboard. A surprise groan filled the air just as she slipped to the other side of her bed and clasped her hands on her ear, knowing what was coming.
And it came in like a damn storm.
The strong wind rushed into her room with a loud howl.
And with it, came the bullets that brought her entire house down.
Bang! Bang!
The bullets zoomed all around her, ruining her bed, ruining her house as the damned phone kept blaring in her hand.
“Fuck,” Ray snarled when she saw the caller ID. The bullets wouldn’t stop, knew they wouldn’t for a while. But she didn’t have time to stay in the same place for a while.
Her shadow was still alive.
Too bad, a spoon couldn’t kill someone, Ray couldn’t help but think venomously as she picked up the call and pressed her phone to her ear.
“Great timing jackass,” she hissed as she scrambled around for the gun she’d stripped to the underside of her bed. Fucking Akash had the audacity to sigh in her ear when she finally found the metal handle and ripped it out.
“I was trying to warn you.” He said, “There’s a bounty on your head.”
Ray sighed, adjusting the phone between her shoulder and her ear as she loaded the gun and pulled it with aclick. She didn’t bother asking as she dared a peep from above her bed. A bullet zoomed right atop her head, brushing her hair as she ducked with a loud curse.
“Who took the bait?” she asked finally and grabbed the knife that was tucked into the waistband of her pants. She sighed at their sight. She was going to spill blood on these as well.Fuck.
“It’s the Santos.” He replied and Ray’s brows arched, just as another round of bullets rang across her room, “They know that the Lions have a new recruit.”
“Of course.” She mutter venomously, and he continued,
“I mean the entire community knows that they brought in someone new. They just don’t know it's you.”
“But the Santos do?” she asked, and froze, “It fucking worked right?”
“Jesus Ray,” Akash said from the other end, and she could feel him bristle at the malice hidden in her words, “Yes, of course it worked. The Santos have excellent intel. And there’s a rumor going around that they’re looking at allying with the Lions.”
Ray snorted.
“This isn’t funny.” He said from the other end, just as Ray caught the sounds of glass creaking under her shadow’s foot, “But it means our plan worked.”
She sighed, even as excitement shot through her veins.
“I have to go, I have a guest.”
“Stay alive Walker.” Were his only words before the line went dead. Ray let the phone drop to the ground and rolled her shoulders back.
“Hey,asshole!”She yelled above the sounds of the bullets that still echoed in the room. The footsteps ceased and Ray’s hold on her knife tightened, “No one teach you how to finish tasks by yourself?”
No one said anything for an entire minute.
Ray couldn’t help her light chuckle.
“Suficiente.”
And the entire room silenced.
