Edge Of Bloodshed (Beyond the Collapse Book 3) by Nelson Kip

Author:Nelson, Kip [Nelson, Kip]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It had been a long night. They had marched back and forth to an enemy camp; had seen horrors they never would forget. Adam's life had been saved by the man he hated more than anyone in the world, then he had let the opportunity to kill that man slip through his fingers. Wrestling with the jumbled ideas of morality in his head was becoming a full-time job and it was so hard to keep everything straight. On top of that the screams of all those who died echoed in his mind, and he still felt the heat of that blazing fire, the one that took everything away and left the bodies turning to ash. A nauseous feeling resided in the pit of his stomach and his knees were weak. All he wanted to do was to fall into bed and try to sleep, to lose himself in slumber and just for a short while forget about everything he had seen. In the games he had designed it had been so easy to be violent and dress it up as something glorious and glamorous, but the reality of it was gritty and he knew he never would be the same again.

And the thing about war is that it took away so many important people, like Diana. The last time he saw her had been through the smoke, his throat dry and eyes bleary. He wanted to call out to her, but she was gone before he had the chance, and he hadn't even had the opportunity to say goodbye. She was dead, just like so many others, and Adam wondered when the Grim Reaper was going to come for him. It almost had, and he remembered staring down the barrel of the gun. It all would have been over for him if Lee hadn't stepped in and saved his life. Another man died instead of Adam, and there was just no time to process it all. He wanted to think and talk and try to make sense of it all. He wondered if Peter had been through all the same moral wrangling in his past.

There was no time for any thought, though, only more action. Although his limbs were tired, and his body was aching, and his mind was dizzy, and every single part of him was just crying out for sleep...even though he was dirty and dried sweat clung to his body the night was not over yet, for Tara just had told him that Lisa had Annabelle captive. All through the battle one of the only things that had kept Adam alive was the thought of getting back to Annabelle to keep her safe, especially after he had lost track of Diana. It wasn't fair that Annabelle had seen so much sorrow. First her parents had died, and now her surrogate mother was gone, too. Adam had dreaded coming back to tell her. He knew he never could replace Diana, but he would do his best to keep her safe.

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