Chapter 15: One Left

Tank wants to throw both grenades, and Hollis answers with one word: "One." Neither of them says the rest out loud — four men, one grenade, no way back through the wood. What gets me is what Tank does next. He stops arguing and closes Hollis's fingers around the last one. That gesture carries everything the two of them won't say. If you were standing there, would you have handed it over?
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