Dark Solstice by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor [O'Connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-03-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

A near deafening silence descended for a handful of seconds as the lights went out, making Raathe wonder if he’d blacked out. The guard grunted as Raathe’s blade made impact and dug in. The blow sent a shaft of paralyzing pain all the way up Raathe’s arm to his shoulder, jarring his grip from the weapon. To his left, he heard another guttural cry and then Rhea screamed.

The scream cut through his shocked certainty that he’d blacked out where neither of the other cries had really registered. He surged blindly to his feet, fell over the guard he’d killed, and searched him frantically for his keys. He’d just gripped them in his hand when someone touched his shoulder.

“I’ve got her,” Justice growled, blocking the blow Raathe swung at him. “Move it!”

Stumbling blindly to his feet, Raathe swung his hands out in search of something to anchor himself. He met two other hands groping the darkness—Rhea’s and Justice’s.

“I can’t see a fucking thing!” he growled as the three of them stumbled forward through darkness so thick it felt as if it had substance.

“The backup generator will kick in any second,” Justice responded, pulling at him. “We’ll be dodging laser blasts if we don’t get to the doors.

He was too disoriented to find the fucking the doors!

A flicker of light was their first warning that the generators had kicked on, but it gave Raathe just enough sight in that split second to see that they’d managed to stumble their way more or less in the general direction of the blast doors. Grimes, he saw, looking like a deer caught in a hunter’s crosshairs, was standing in the open door. More sure of himself now, he slung Justice’s grip off, snatched Rhea off her feet with his good arm, and raced toward the door.

The lights blinded them when they flickered to life, but it had a similar effect on the guards. They’d covered several more yards before the guards began to pepper the floor of the arena around them with laser blasts.

Justice uttered a curse and plowed the floor as one blast caught his leg, but managed to roll up and get to his feet again. Grimes ducked out of the door before they reached it. The door began to swing closed. Cursing Grimes for his cowardice, Raathe ran faster. He managed to catch the edge of the door with his right hand before it closed, sealing them in, but he didn’t have the strength in it to grip the door and pull it open again. Justice plowed into him, shoving him against the door and nearly slamming it closed. Fortunately, his fingers were still in it. He ground his teeth at the pain that shot through his previously uninjured fingers and released Rhea long enough to pull the door open.

Grimes had already reached the door at the far end and was frantically keying the code as they shot through the blast doors and raced toward him. He was still fumbling to get the code in when they reached him.

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