Kaitlyn O'Connor by Enslaved III: The Gladiators

Author:Enslaved III: The Gladiators [Enslaved III: The Gladiators]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 2011-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

the collapsing space station if they didn‟t get into one of the crafts quickly.

Kael discarded any notion of choosing among them, racing toward the closest. Even as his foot settled on the gangplank of the first he came to, however, he spied the trader two vessels over fighting his way up his own gangplank. “That one!” he bellowed, leaping off the gangplank and battling his way through the mindless mob racing to get to safety.

The trader had made it inside and was already trying to retract the gangplank when they reached it. It moved sluggishly, weighed down by those still standing on it. Gathering himself, Kael leapt up onto the gangplank and raced toward the door that was closing, shoving his sword into the swiftly closing aperture. Dakaar and Balen arrived as he was struggling to get leverage to pry the door open again. Grasping the edge, they began prying at the door, straining every muscle in their efforts to pull it wider.

The trader began screaming obscenities at them in a half a dozen tongues. “You‟ll break it and breach the hull, you stupid bastards!”

“Open it!” Kael bellowed.

Unfortunately, he was still caught in the grips of battle fever. The sonar blast he projected picked the trader up and sent him flying across the bay and slammed him into the wall. He slid down it and lay unmoving on the floor.

“Fuck!” Kael bellowed.

“Let me down!” Loren screamed. “I can get in and open it.”

Kael hesitated as it flickered through his mind that she might well seize the opportunity to rid herself of them permanently, but he only hesitated a moment. Grasping her waist, he hauled her from his shoulder and settled her on her feet. She sent him a look he could not quite interpret as she wedged herself into the narrow opening and then she disappeared. “Give me a second!”

“We only have one!” Dakaar bellowed. “The top of the station is cracking!”

Realizing Dakaar had spoken in their own tongue, Kael was about to repeat his warning in Unduleze when the door began to open wider. He charged inside the moment it was wide enough. Dakaar and Balen leapt in behind him and the remainder of the Hirachi poured in behind them, carrying Ka-ren and Shara. Kael hesitated when he saw three of the other gladiators struggling up the plank and then held the door for them.

“I close!” he told Lau-ren. “Go! Make de machine go!”

Nodding jerkily, she glanced around the bay. “Oh god! I don‟t even know where the damned control room is!”

Spying the trader, she raced to him and dropped to her knees. “The control room! Where is it!”

He opened his eyes and stared at her blankly.

She grabbed the front of his suit and jerked him upright. “Tell me, you stupid bastard or we‟re all dead!” she screamed at him.

His head wobbled. Blood gurgled in his throat when he tried to speak and he began coughing, spattering her with tiny droplets of blood.

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