A Halflings Rescue by Heather Burch

Author:Heather Burch [Burch, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780310736226
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2012-07-03T07:00:00+00:00

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1

We are not going in.” Mace had Raven by the shirt, his hand fisted into the cloth.

Vine swallowed. Only two days ago Mace and Raven, along with their parental stand-in, Will, had rescued Nikki from her godfather, Damon Vessler—yeah, rescued. You could argue that she’d chosen Will and the Halflings, but decisions could always be revoked. As far as Vine was concerned, it was amazing Nikki was still staying at the house. Vessler was like a thundercloud on the day of a parade, hovering and waiting to strike. Vine could feel the approaching threat. So could Mace and Raven, which was one reason the two of them were seconds from tearing each other apart. The other reason was completely wrapped around Nikki herself. They both had it bad for her. And no one—including Will—knew when and if she’d go running back to Vessler.

And all of those factors caused Vine to stay alert. He’d even left the house without the bag of candy he’d spent an hour carefully packing after Zero discovered the location of a possible Omega Corporation storage facility.

Raven shoved Mace away from him. “If we can get inside, we can find out what Omega’s hiding. Why would a science lab need a giant warehouse?”

Mace’s shoulders dropped marginally. Vine could see he was trying to calm down, and that Raven’s smug smile wasn’t helping. “We were told to observe and report back to Will.”

“This isn’t Will’s journey, Mace. It’s ours. And the sooner we find out why Omega wants Nikki, the sooner this whole nightmare is over.”

At the mention of Nikki’s name, Mace’s eyes changed. The strange blue-green color darkened into a bubbling sea of frustration, and Vine watched Mace’s right hand flex.

Of all the days to forget gummy worms.

Mace and Raven were probably pretty evenly matched as far as Halflings go. It’d be a brutal fight—and Vine was ready. He’d stepped between the two once or twice. But their anger was boiling like a lava pit, and all that hostility was about to release somewhere. It wouldn’t be at each other. Vine wouldn’t allow it.

Mace’s fingers relaxed, but his eyes remained harsh and focused. “We also risk being caught. This place is crawling with men from Omega.”

“Exactly,” Raven argued. “We need to find out what’s happening inside or this trip was a waste.”

It wasn’t a trip; they’d simply gone to the edge of town on a surveillance mission. When they saw a van with the Omega emblem on the side, they confirmed what Zero had suspected: the lab was more than a harmless research facility. Their job was done.

“And if we go inside, we could ruin everything. We’re leaving.”

An engine whined above them and the three boys ducked deeper into the tree line as a small private plane circled overhead. When it landed at the adjacent airfield, the boys relaxed. Sort of.

Raven challenged Mace with a look. “I don’t take orders from you.”

“You don’t take orders from anyone. You do whatever you want without even a thought to how it could hurt others.

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