Final Dance: Part Two by Samantha Cayto

Author:Samantha Cayto [Cayto, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-03T23:00:00+00:00

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Craig took his time walking up and down the length of the table, perusing his choice of handguns. The display was impressive, and he picked up a few he was unfamiliar with to test the weight and feel of them. He wanted to be armed with whatever made the most sense. And this was only the start. From everything that Val and Malcolm had said, each of them was going to be tricked out like Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, as she descended into the queen alien’s lair. The analogy fit, too, although in this version of the movie, the Queen was going to be left behind to watch movies and eat cookies, while an unruly drone was getting axed. He wasn’t sure that made all that much sense. Who was the real threat to his world—one crazy motherfucker or a young woman who had the ability to reproduce dozens of offspring?

Funny how he’d laughed at all the movies in that franchise and other sci-fi ones, sure in his belief that they were pure fantasy. While he hadn’t discounted the idea of there being other species out in the universe, it hadn’t seemed likely that they’d bother to invade little old Earth. Technically, they hadn’t. This whole nightmare was based on a fluke, one that had changed the course of his planet’s history, based on the bits and pieces he’d caught of the story. He was more than happy to put an end to it all, except that was not what would happen, even if they were victorious. His planet would still be populated by aliens, just more benevolent ones. And Annika would be free to go about her queenly duty. The men around her would have more time to father others.

The thought struck him with such a force that he stopped and gripped the side of the table. Around him, good men by all accounts were filling crates with weapons, everything from semi-automatics to smoke bombs to C-fucking-four. They acted as if this were perfectly normal, at ease with everything, because they’d been around when each of the items had been invented. They’d seen humans develop greater and more lethal ways to fight and had amassed a huge arsenal, simply due to their enormous wealth and longevity. It wouldn’t surprise him if they had nuclear capability. That meant they held the ability to destroy Earth and everyone on it. The fact that Alex hadn’t done so and had actively fought against the very havoc that Dracul had sewn didn’t mean that they never would.

It was entirely possible that one day he’d find himself on the other end of a conflict with these men. With Dracul gone, they might feel free to step into his place. They could perhaps rationalize their effort by promising to be a more benevolent form of conqueror. That little Queen of theirs in particular seemed to have hidden depths. Did her father and Alex really have any control over what she did, and

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