(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 285

Chapter 285: We’re in so much trouble

"Holy shit!" Someone screamed as Kellen, his teeth grit pushed the D.E.C. member who had betrayed them back until they fell on their back. The man was choking, Kellen’s grip unforgiving.

Kellen heard another gunshot go off, and realised that the idiot was still shooting. They were already on the ground, and Kellen didn’t want anyone else to be hurt, so he turned the gun towards the man. The barrel of the gun pressed against the man’s side and Kellen glared at him.

"Do it. Fire it again." Kellen hissed. His eyes were bulging, his expression panicked as Kellen kept moving. He wasn’t going down the way that he had anticipated, and Kellen felt a smile cross his lips as he stared at the confused, panicked man. "Did you think I didn’t plan ahead? Are you an idiot? You’ve worked for the D.E.C. for how long, and you still don’t know what the Field Guide uniforms are made out of?" Kellen mocked him, scoffing as the man’s eyes rolled back in his head.

Kellen didn’t let him up as his legs smacked against the pavement, trying to get air. Kellen ignored the way his chest aches, and the way his leg wound was screaming as he kneeled on the ground. This was far more important, and he could grovel to Taylor later.

"Kellen, how hurt are you?" Sakura’s voice behind his right shoulder had Kellen relax slightly.

"Could be worse. Are you going to take over?" Kellen asked and felt his hair whip around his face, his jacket rustling as Sakura came to land next to him. While the Esper had been struggling to breathe because Kellen had his hands around his throat, that changed quickly as Sakura turned her glowing gaze to him.

Kellen watched as he began to choke on the lack of air in his system, Sakura depriving him of that entirely.

"Only unconscious, Sakura." Kellen warned and Sakura clicked her tongue.

"He shot you." She retorted, and Kellen realised she was toeing the line. He glanced at her, noticing how tense her body was, how her throat was in sharp contrast.

"And I’m fine." She growled.

"You were shot point blank. There is no fucking way you’re okay." Sakura protested and Kellen finally released his hold on the Esper as his body went lax. Kellen took the gun from his hands, tucking it into one of his many pockets in his jacket before he went to get up. Esper Blake was there, helping him as his injured leg trembled.

"A-Are you okay?" Esper Blake’s voice trembled, her hands shaking as she helped Kellen up. The screaming and shouting in the background zoned out as Kellen took in her frame.

Oh. This might have been very traumatizing for her. Kellen hadn’t even considered that since he usually didn’t consider those things until much later. She was supposed to be a protective detail. Make sure Kellen didn’t get shot, and yet here he was, still shot. Oh shit.

"Blake." Kellen said carefully. "I’m fine. Do you want to feel?" Kellen asked and watched as her whole body trembled. Her lips were shaking, and Kellen was worried she was going to cry.

"H-How much blood is there?" She asked, her voice dipping down until it was barely a whisper.

"I’m not bleeding at all." Kellen told her. "Do you remember how many vests I have on?" She shook her head, and Kellen realised she’d missed that part of the debrief. "Let’s just get me inside. I can show you the wound then, alright? It’s probably nothing more than a bruise." She didn’t look like she believed Kellen’s words, and that was a bad sign.

If she didn’t believe them, there was a good chance that Rhys wasn’t going to believe him either.

"Sakura." Kellen turned his head towards her and she jerked her head toward him.

"Yes?" She asked.

"Do you have this?" He asked and Sakura glanced behind him before back to him before she nodded. Kellen, who was curious about who he was glancing at, turned to follow where her gaze had gone, and found that she was looking at Pamela.

Pamela hadn’t reacted to anything that had happened, and instead was still whispering into her tablet. Kellen wondered if she was even aware of what was happening so close to her, and then wondered about the D.E.C. member next to her.

As soon as they felt Kellen’s gaze on them, the D.E.C. member held up their hands.

"I have nothing to do with that scum." They said, and Kellen didn’t realise that he was looking at them in such a way that would make them say that. _{freёweɓnovel.com}