Apocalypse Assassins: The Complete Series by D. Laine & Desni Dantone

Author:D. Laine & Desni Dantone [Laine, D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-10-09T06:00:00+00:00

13

Thea

I wasn’t worried. Jake and Dylan had been gone for three days now, no one told me where they were, and I had no idea if they were okay or not, but I wasn’t worried. I went about my days as if nothing was wrong, despite the feeling that something was missing.

At least, I tried to.

“You’re not going to survive long out there.” Tanner appraised me with critical blue eyes. His massive biceps bulged when he crossed his arms over his chest. “Not if you keep this up.”

“So show me something useful then.” I thrust a finger in the direction of the weapons, where they lined one wall of the training room. “I can shoot a gun fine, but I’ll decapitate myself trying to use one of those things. I need to—”

“You need to be efficient at close contact first,” he interrupted. Sweeping an unimpressed gaze over me, he added, “And you need a hell of a lot more conditioning.”

“You’re not putting me back in the weight room.” I widened my stance and folded my arms to mirror him.

He started to turn, then stopped to smirk at my defiance. “You want to go another round?”

I nodded tersely, dropping my arms in preparation. I still didn’t think he would give in, so when he flew into me, I wasn’t exactly ready. Four of his five hits got through, striking already tender flesh and muscles, as he backed me up to the edge of the mat. Trapped between a rock and a wall, I attempted a tuck and roll around him. I ended up with the heel of his foot pressed to my windpipe.

He stared down at me and shook his head. I shoved his smelly, sock-clad foot aside and jumped up. “Let’s go again.”

“I don’t see the point,” he sighed.

“Again.”

He glared at me. “I’m not going to hold back.”

“I don’t want you to.”

He came at me with a wicked grin. I blocked his first strike, then another. Feeling the momentum shift, I bounced on my toes as he circled me.

His eyes hardened. “You think you’re good?”

“I just—”

His fists flew like darts strapped to tiny rockets, stinging and bruising everything they came in contact with. Three got through before I managed to block one. I thwarted another of Tanner’s attempts to pulverize my kidneys, and leapt over his sweeping leg before it could cut mine out from beneath me. When I came down, I wished someone was here to see that move. Dylan and Jake would have appreciated it, but they—

Tanner’s fist came out of nowhere, and I saw stars.

My head instinctively slumped into my hands. A drop of blood trickled onto my palm. I wiped it on my pant leg before peering up at Tanner. He and his two blurry twins slowly combined to form one solid, intimidating image.

His arms were at his sides. There may have been a brief hint of remorse hidden beneath the hardness in his eyes, but I was pretty sure I imagined it.

“We’re done for the day,” he told me.

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