Armored Hearts by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: 07419-02393
Published: 2015-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Rand, Zara thought, looked incredibly pissed off. Worried as hell, too. It was obvious he loved his mother a great deal, and was convinced she was in some kind of danger.

Well, Adela did plan to meet the invasion leader, who was the target of more than one Falaran assassination plot. What kind of business deal was worth that sort of risk?

Still, why was he so convinced she was in imminent danger, as if someone was actively gunning for her?

Maybe he was just intensely protective. Zara felt that way about her parents too, which is one reason she’d gone to war to begin with. The Godssonists were a threat to the whole planet, including her family. She’d felt driven to do something about it, even if that meant becoming a Vampire Support Specialist in order to maximize her effectiveness in combat.

At least she hadn’t blindsided her mother with that decision the way Rand evidently had. Then again, she hadn’t been a teenager, either. Not that her parents had been any happier about the idea than Adela, but Zara had been twenty-one. At the end of the ferocious argument that had followed, both her parents had basically flung up their hands in disgust.

“Go. Do what you want to do,” her mother said. “You will anyway.”

“Just be careful,” her father added. “We do love you, even if you drive us crazy.”

They’d understood the sense of duty that drove her. They should. They’d instilled it. They…

Rand rose from his seat in a muscular rush of vampire speed that sent Zara jolting back to the present. She looked up at him in alarm.

“Get your boots on,” he said over his shoulder, moving to kneel beside his foot locker. “We need to get the hell out of here.”

“Why? Where are we going?” Did he intend to race off after his mother? Surely not. An officer couldn’t just up and leave his post. Not without getting court martialed, anyway.

He gave her a hard smile. “We’re going on a picnic.”

Zara blinked. The expression on his face was entirely too grim to go with those words. Whatever he intended, it was a hell of a lot more than a picnic.

She hesitated a moment, watching him flip up the lid of the locker and pull out a small pack. “Exactly what do you have in mind?”

He looked up to give her a wicked smile. It didn’t even look forced. “Eating. You do that on a picnic.”

“I have heard something about that, yes,” Zara said dryly, watching him take items out of the locker and start tucking them into the pack.

“Good to know you’re not completely uncivilized out here on the ass of nowhere. Boots, lieutenant.”

Frowning, Zara stepped into the boots and bent to close the seals. Rand, meanwhile, pulled his beamer rifle out of the locker. “You carry that on the base?”

“I do when I’m escorting a prisoner.”

“Take many prisoners on picnics?”

“I do when I plan to eat them.” He put down the weapon and pulled a pair of neurocuffs out of the locker.

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