Alpha Wave (The Sleepers War Book 1) by Jonathan Maberry & Weston Ochse

Alpha Wave (The Sleepers War Book 1) by Jonathan Maberry & Weston Ochse

Author:Jonathan Maberry & Weston Ochse [Maberry, Jonathan & Ochse, Weston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-09-04T16:00:00+00:00


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As Darren Burris rose from the cryo-chamber his hand clamped around Lexie’s throat, raising her first to her feet, then the tips of her toes, and as the Sleeper stood, he held her completely off the floor.

The grip was so tight. Lexie could not drag in even a spoonful of air. Black poppies seemed to form in the air in front of her eyes, the petals spreading so fast and so wide they blocked the light. She clawed at his hand, scratching him, beating at the iron-hard fist that held her. She kicked, hitting him every single time in his stomach and chest and hip. It did no good at all. It was like fighting a statue of stone, of steel.

Burris looked around, his eyes wild. Fires seemed to ignite in those eyes and his lips peeled back in a snarl every bit as feral as a wolf or tiger’s.

Pickle and Dubbs rushed at him. Pickle grabbed Lexie around the waist and tried to pull her free. Dubbs shouted and pleaded as he tried to pry the man’s fingers open. With his free hand, Burris swatted both men away. One, two. Appallingly fast; deeply savage. Pickle spun around and slammed into the wall, the impact splitting his lips and cracking his nose, a splash-pattern of blood staining the wall.

Dubbs went flying, his big and muscular body plucked off the deck as if he were a scarecrow filled lightly with straw. His caterwaul rose and then ended abruptly as he struck the side of Jason Horse’s chamber. The impact doubled Dubbs over and he slid bonelessly to the floor.

All of it in a single second. Time itself seemed to slow, nearly to stop.

As Darren Burris continued to scream like something from hell itself.

“I am alive!” he roared in a voice so loud that it seemed no human throat could have ever managed. Impossibility defined the moment more than anything else.

Lexie heard that scream on a level beyond human hearing. It was louder than that. And she saw everything through a veil of red-tinged black that seemed to have dropped over everything. There were so many things she wanted to tell this man, this HE. This Sleeper. She wanted to prove to him that she and her friends were here to help. She wanted to warn him about the Raptors trying to break in. Even as he slowly killed her, Lexie wanted to assure him that she was not his enemy.

She felt herself moving through space and realized—dimly with her oxygen-starved brain—that Burris was bringing her around so he could look at her. More than that, she could feel him invading her, violating her. Not her flesh, but her mind. Intertwining with her thoughts. Obscuring her dreams. Raping her very idea of self.

There was no logic to how she knew this. There was no science to explain it; nothing from history to define it. He was just there; inside her; violating her.

The pounding on the door became louder, sharper, imminent.

Burris ignored it and stared into Lexie’s eyes.



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