[Natasha's POV]He ducked back behind the corner of a building.I had seconds. The man on the ground was groaning, trying to rise. I kicked him hard in the head. He went limp. A stolen breath of time.I scrambled for the satellite phone, brushing the snow off it. The screen was dark. I pressed the power button. Nothing. It was dead. A bullet, a kick, the cold… something had finished it.Forty-seven percent. Was it enough?I didn't wait to find out. I ran. Not inland, where more of them could be. Not back to the pier, which was a dead end. I ran along the line of the buildings, toward the dark, open end of the village. The wind howled, a physical presence, pushing me, hiding me.I reached the last building in the row. A storage shed, its door hanging off a single, rusted hinge. I slipped inside, pulling the door as shut as I could. The air inside was thick with the smell of salt and old fishnets. I peered through a crack in the wood.They were regrouping. One was helping the other to h
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