Chapter 22

Lex told me to take the jeep back to the house and before shifting and heading back the direction we came from. I jumped into the jeep and took off across the lawn. I was going as fast as I could on the rough trail. I had lost sight of Lex as soon as he hit the tree line earlier. I pulled into the front of the house and jumped right out, the jeep still running.

I swung open the door, “In here!” Lex called to me hearing my entrance.

I saw Randolph laid out on the couch. Florence was coming in from the kitchen with a bowl of water and some towels. There was blood flowing down from the slash across his chest. He wasn’t moving, my guess was he had passed out from either the pain or blood loss, maybe both.

“What the hell happened?” I said rushing over to his side to assist with cleaning the wound.

“We still don’t have all of the information; he was just outside the border when one of the patrols heard the fight. We man