“No worries,” Carter said as he saw two more men coming at them firing.
When Rain and Carter returned fire on them, it sent the shooters rushing to take cover. Once they reached better cover, the two shooters broke out heavier weapons and sprayed the area with bullets.
Rain dove for the ground and Carter ran for cover behind a pillar. She crawled along the floor to make it to a spot where she could get to her feet. They separated and opened up on Carter, trying to get him in a crossfire. Carter fired a couple of shots as he moved to better cover. With their gunfire focused on Carter, Rain was able to keep moving to the rear of the warehouse. As the shooter continued firing at Carter, Rain quietly moved in behind one of them. She put her gun to the base of his skull and pulled the trigger.
Now that only one shooter remained, Carter and Rain concentrated their fire on him. He kept firing until his weapon was empty, but before he could get to his handgun, Carter stepped out and took him down with one shot to the head. Rain walked over to the one she killed, stood over and put two in his chest.
“Let’s go find Jackie,” Rain said as she walked over to Carter and then did the same with the other as she passed.
While Rain and Carter were exchanging fire with the two shooters, Jackie kept moving toward the rear of the building. According to Baby Chris, there was a staircase that led to the third level and that was where Hogan was most likely set up.
As she moved slowly and quietly along the wall, a man ran at Jackie firing his weapon. She quickly found cover and returned fire. He took cover and kept firing at Jackie until his gun was empty and he stopped to reload a fresh clip. Jackie hit him with two shots to the chest, the gunman went down, and he dropped his gun.
As he struggled to get to it, Jackie came out from cover, and shot him in the back before he could reach for it. Jackie was about to reload when another gunman began firing at her. She went for her second gun and returned fire as she ran for cover, but one of his shots hit Jackie in the vest. The impact took her off her feet and she hit her head on the ground.
Still dazed from the fall, Jackie crawled to cover. The gunman kept firing as he walked boldly toward her. With her head still hurting from the fall, Jackie shook it off as best she could, took aim and fired at the gunman until her gun was empty.
The cluster of shots may have hit him in the chest, but he kept coming. As Jackie was scrambling to reload, the gunman fell over face first in front of her.
“He must have been on that good shit,” Jackie said as she reloaded both of her weapons, got to her feet with both of her weapons raised and continued moving toward the staircase.
As she started slowly up the staircase, Jackie pressed her back against the wall. She stopped when she heard a noise, looked up and raised her weapons in time to see Hogan coming around the landing. He froze for a second when he saw her, and Jackie opened fire. She hit him with several shots and his bullet-riddled body came tumbling down the stairs and stopped at Jackie’s feet just as Rain and Carter arrived.
“Thank you for not making me chase you,” Jackie said and put one more in his head before Rain could get to him.
“You alright?” Carter asked.
“No. My head hurts,” she said, rubbing the back of her head. “So, running up the stairs to chase Hogan was the last thing I wanted to do.”
While Carter checked the building to make sure they didn’t miss anybody and take any money that just happen to be laying around, Rain and Jackie planted explosives throughout the structure. When they were finished, they left the warehouse and moved to a safe distance. Rain pressed the detonator and then she got out of the car to watch it burn to the ground.
Chapter Thre
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“What you wanna do now?” Carter asked as the sound of police sirens began filling the air.
Rain took a look at her handiwork and then she glanced at her watch as she moved toward her car.
“Why, you got something else to do?”
“Not especially,” Carter said, as he got back in the car. He didn’t have anything to do, but it was one in the morning and they had hit their first spot at dawn.
“It’s still early,” Rain said and after she took one last look at the warehouse she just destroyed, she got back in the car. “Let’s hit another spot before we call it a night,” she said, knowing that she had arranged to meet Black, Bobby and Wanda at J.R.’s at three in the morning.
Carter looked at Jackie as she started the car and drove off. He knew exactly where her head was at.
Revenge.
If Rain wanted to do this for days at a time without sleeping, Jackie would be right there with her. And under normal circumstances, he’d be down for that too. But these weren’t normal circumstances.
Goodbye, Carter. Please stop trying to reach out to me. It’s over between us.
Those were the last words that Mileena said to him before she closed her car door, drove away and left him standing there feeling like she had kicked his insides out again.
That’s where Carter was, still standing there in the parking lot outside J.R.’s, watching dumbfounded as Mileena drove away. It was as if he was stuck in that moment of time, hearing those words.
It’s over between us.