Bryce by Romi Hart

Author:Romi Hart [Hart, Romi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

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Bryce and Alexa sat side by side gazing across Lake Salvador. This time, they sat with their shoulders touching and their fingers interlaced. Bryce’s chest hurt thinking about tomorrow. He came up with the plan days ago to sacrifice his own life in order to warn Anarock of the Omega Battalion’s invasion. He didn’t tell Alexa, though. He didn’t want her to suggest she go along with it.

Now she knew. He never expected her to sit tight behind the lines and let him go alone. That was why he hesitated to tell her. Now they would go together. He wasn’t sure if he should be glad of that or not.

He couldn’t turn his back on her no matter what happened. He knew that now. She kept him sane. She kept him afloat with that hand in his. She anchored him to reality so he wouldn’t lose his mind in this madhouse.

So tomorrow morning early, the two of them would go find McCain. They would propose this idea of torching the city. Then, when he and Alexa flew over Anarock, Bryce would have to find Victor in a hurry. He would have to confront the brother who put a death sentence on his head. He would have a matter of seconds to convince Victor to listen before Victor tried to kill him.

Bryce almost hoped Victor would kill him. Bryce didn’t want to deal with this nightmare anymore. Not even Alexa could make this agony bearable. He would rather die and he couldn’t think of anyone he would rather do the job than Victor. He could almost wish Victor had executed him at the wedding.

If he had, Anarock would never have known the Omega Battalion was coming. That would have been unacceptable, so Bryce supposed he had to admit this torment was a good thing in the end. It sure didn’t feel like it, though.

The minutes dragged. The hours tortured his very soul. He dreaded the dawn and he wished it would hurry up and come so he could get this ordeal over with.

Lights winked far away on the skyline. Somewhere over there, people played music and danced and drank and played poker and snorted lines of cocaine and gambled and fucked and slept and snored and read and surfed the internet. They didn’t have a clue about the Omega Battalion. Bryce envied them. They didn’t have to sit outside on a cold and lonely lakeshore facing the greatest trial of their lives.

Out of nowhere, Alexa shifted in her seat. She tilted sideways and rested her head on his shoulder. She snuggled close to him and hugged his arm under her elbow. She slipped her other hand around his waist, but not even that intimate embrace could comfort him. Nothing could—nothing but death.

She sighed. Her lips gave a quiet clicking smack opening to say something, but at that instant, a loud crash of something shattering startled them both out of their wits. They leaped to their feet at the same moment. They jumped apart and spun toward the noise.

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