Asher's POV

"Do you think we should split up?" Jake asked thirty or forty minutes into our search as he moved beside me, flashing the beams of his torch in different directions a head of us. "What do you want to do?" I asked, refusing to be distracted. I did not want my focus to be shifted at all.

"I think we should split up," he said and I nodded. "Alright then. You have your gun?" I looked at him finally and he nodded. "Remember, shoot once you sight danger. Do not be a fucking hero," I told him with a glare that he could not see in the darkness...