Chapter 40

“Do you think the guy will come with the helicopter? You killed both of those bastards,” stated Roxie quite calmly. “You took the fight out of the cartel guys down in the road, but I’d feel a lot better if we were flying home right now.”

“Let’s gather up what we can carry and start for the pickup point. We’ll know within the next hour if the guy’s coming for us. If he doesn’t we have to be ready to keep walking. It might be a little hot around here for a few days,” replied Steve as he carefully slung the rifles over his good shoulder. That’s when he noticed the pain in his leg.

“You’ve been hit in the leg!” worried Roxie. “Does it hurt much? Can you walk? Want me to put a bandage on it?”

“I can walk and it isn’t bleeding very much, so let’s get moving. We don’t want to be late if that helicopter shows up,” reasoned Steve as he ushered the girls down a nearly invisible path.

Gwen had managed to regain her poise as her mother and friends offered encouragement t