The rest happened very fast. Thanks to Andre, I had one second to throw my hand toward the wall and grab the hair dryer. With it, I struck the panther’s already unsteady hand, and the gun veered to the right.
There was a single gunshot, of course, loud and sharp.
Fragments of wall covering flew in every direction, and Sasha began to scream. The shot actually made me happy, because it would be enough for Ishida and Alexander himself to appear and catch that monster. I protected the baby in my arms and, with my injured shoulder thrust forward, I rammed into the panther’s body. What else could I do? He was in my way, and I needed to put distance between that animal and myself, to move him away from the children. I heard the dull metallic sound of the gun hitting the floor, because the panth
