Hitting Xtremes (Xtreme Ops Book 1) by Em Petrova

Author:Em Petrova [Petrova, Em]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

The earth vibrated. Clumps of snow dropped from the high tree branches.

Cora barely had time to react.

She threw out her arms. “Penn! The ridge! It’s gonna go!”

Penn’s expression hardened as he shot them both to their feet. “Avalanche!” he bellowed into this comms device to his team, probably blowing their eardrums in the process of making them safe.

The snow started to shift under their feet, and Cora reached for her backpack at the last second. She barely snagged the strap and threw it over her shoulder before they started sliding. She looked up to see the wall of snow coming for them.

“Grab a tree!” She did, and Penn wrapped himself around her and the trunk. She tucked her face down to avoid the worst of the blast of snow as it raged in a tsunami wave down the ridge. The thunder in her ears deafened, and she felt Penn lock his arms tighter, keeping them both riveted in place while the earth rushed by them.

From the corner of her eye, she saw their tents whip by, torn from the ground with the force. Next, a solid block of ice and compacted snow came from a higher flat above, breaking into large chunks as it cut through the trees.

Her heart raced. She’d never been in the middle of an avalanche before, but she’d seen a few from the air with her father. She’d heard of plenty of hikers and skiers losing their lives from such a disaster and thought of the five team members somewhere on this ridge. If they were trained in the ocean waters, were they trained to survive an avalanche? The key was not to be buried completely.

The bark of the tree cut into her cheek, but she hardly cared for her own discomfort when the team might not make it. She only knew them a short time, but she cared for them all.

Only fleeting seconds passed.

The rumble from above seemed to quiet, and down below them on the ridge, she heard a faint holler right before the quake of snow stopped. She heard another huge plop hit the valley below. She detected the cracking of ice on the frozen river. Then nothing.

Her arms quivered from holding so tight to the tree. She couldn’t imagine how Penn must feel. Minutes passed where neither moved. She listened hard and heard no more rumbles.

“I think it’s safe to move now,” she whispered into the silence.

Penn’s chest, plastered to her spine, heaved. Slowly, he peeled himself off the tree. Her thigh muscles ached from bracing herself so tightly on an angle to resist the skid, and now they quaked like two Christmas jellies.

He released her, and she wavered before getting her footing. Her mind whirled with all that happened to her. And here the plane crash seemed like a lot. She shook her head, trying to clear it while listening to Penn shoot off commands to his men.

“Sound off, goddammit! Lipton.” He paused. “Lipton?”

Cora clasped her hands together to keep them from shaking.

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