Betrayed Hero (Atramento Book 2) by Nix Whittaker

Author:Nix Whittaker [Whittaker, Nix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Whatinga April, 2087

Once they were outside, Natasha slipped her arm around Warren’s waist. She rubbed her cheek on his shoulder and said softly, “Thank you for all of that. It means something to me that you would make sure my dad got what he deserved.”

Warren liked walking with her close as they wandered through the roses. He looked down at her and thought she was even more beautiful than any rose he had ever seen.

He was about to say something when something hit him in the chest hard. Hot pain slid over his chest and then over his shoulder. He was thrown off his feet by surprise more than the force of whatever hit him. He landed behind some rose bushes.

Warren tried to stand, but Natasha pushed him down. “Stay down. There is a shooter out there.”

Natasha then slunk away crouched behind the roses. He watched her as he worried the shooter would turn their attention to her.

Warren held a hand to the graze on his shoulder. His chest ached, though, where the bullet had first impacted. He touched the hole in his shirt where the bullet had hit him. There was another hole in his shirt over the shoulder where the bullet had exited.

Natasha came back and stooped next to him and growled softly. “The bastard got away. Are you all right?”

He stared at her and how calm she was.

“I was shot in the chest.” His voice sounded strange in his ears.

She moved his hand away from the wound. “It is just a graze.”

“No, I swear they shot me in the chest. It aches still where it hit.” He fingered the hole in his shirt to demonstrate he wasn’t exaggerating.

She raised an eyebrow. “We did speculate that the atramento would make us bullet proof.”

His voice rose sharply as he demanded, “Why the heck didn’t you tell me the darn atramento made me bloody darn gone bulletproof?”

He knew he sounded a little hysterical, but he was seriously freaking out. He had thought he was dead. That bullet had hit and he thought there was no way he would come back from that.

Natasha brushed it all off. “Well, we haven’t done any tests yet. We thought it was a possibility as Misha has managed to flick off a moving truck, and if you take into consideration, the relationship between mass and velocity and convert it to a smaller mass with a higher velocity, we thought bullets might bounce. But we don’t advertise as we weren’t sure. Not until we had run tests and we weren’t quite sure how to do that safely.”

Warren caught her arm. “You could have told me the theories. I thought I was bringing you here to get shot or killed and now you tell me bullets are not really a concern.”

Natasha frowned at him as his voice had risen at the end. “I don’t know why you are angry. I did tell you the atramento would protect me. Harold told you the atramento would protect me. Hal also.

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