Chapter ONE - Weebly

immediately, his chest heaving with every breath.
“Damnit!” he said.
A single man stood at the corner of the next street,
waiting.… For him. Seeing him, the man smirked and
started in his direction. Ethan backed away, and then
ran back onto Ann Street, still heading north.
“Kaille!”
Ethan spun. Yellow-hair was behind him with Nap,
who didn’t look at all pleased to see him. Yellow-hair
was grinning, though, standing in the middle of the lane,
a pistol held loosely in his right hand.
Ethan started away again, but a moment later, two
more men emerged onto the street a block in front of
him. He slowed. Gordon and the brute who had been
with Nap stepped onto the lane from Cross Street,
joining the two other toughs who had blocked his way.
They had herded him to this spot, like wolves
nipping at his heels. And he had let them do it. He had
been too quick to run, too predictable.
Ethan stopped and positioned himself so that he
could watch Gordon and the men approaching from the
north while also keeping an eye on Yellow-hair and