Lethal Leverage

***Kaelen***

Suddenly, the gunfire ceased, cut off like a cord ripped clean in two, and silence surged in like a vacuum.

Then came that voice.

Smug. Venom-laced. Filthy with satisfaction.

“I figured you’d try to sneak out the back,” Dmitri drawled, his silhouette emerging through the haze of smoke and blood. He stepped over the bodies in the corridor like they were trash, trophies of his carnage.