Madness Unleashed: Age Of Madness - A Kurtherian Gambit Series (Live Free Or Die Book 1) by Hayley Lawson & Michael Anderle

Author:Hayley Lawson & Michael Anderle [Lawson, Hayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2018-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

The kids were eyeballing Ryder, trying to put on their toughest faces. Some were even flashing their teeth, like Leandro was. She found it kind of adorable, but the charm was diminished by the razor-sharp spear points they brandished at her.

“What are you kids doing?” she asked.

“We’re the first line of defense against you guys!” one of the youngest children said.

“Yeah!” the rest echoed.

Carter grinned smugly at the kids’ response.

It sickened Ryder that they were afraid of her. “I’m not one of Afana’s men. I was their prisoner. They took me when I was a child. Now, I’ve escaped from them, and I’m trying to get help to free the others.”

Some of the kids lowered their weapons, but Carter looked at Ryder with narrowed eyes.

“Look, I don’t want to fight.” Ryder turned away from the Bora mountain group. Having her back to them wasn’t a good idea, but it showed them two things. One, she wasn’t going to fight. Two, she wasn’t afraid of them.

She waited for their reaction, but before she could get it, there was a bloodcurdling scream from the woods in the direction Tommy had gone.

Carter took off running, and the kids followed him. Ryder sprinted right behind them. She could have used this opportunity to get away, but the boy might need her help.

The wolf ran alongside her, which was weird, but she felt like he wasn’t a threat to her. It was like he was the wolf version of Terrier, her personal bodyguard, and she was grateful to have him.

Ryder nearly ran into Carter. He had stopped, and his hands were out to his sides. The kids were behind him. She looked over Carter’s shoulder to see tiny Tommy cowering in front of a huge brown bear that stood on its back legs, growling.

The wolf positioned itself in front of Ryder, and it snarled at the bear. The bear’s attention moved from Tommy to the wolf. Ryder got her arrows ready. She wasn’t going to let any of the kids get hurt.

The bear lunged toward the group, and the wolf leaped in the air toward the bear, his razor-sharp teeth going for the bear’s neck. The wolf managed to dig its teeth into the bear’s thick hide, but the bear shook its body mightily, flinging the wolf away into a tree.

The bear didn’t give the wolf a second glance. He was only interested in his next meal. Ryder let her arrows fly—she’d killed bears before—and the bear let out angry cries as the arrows hit him.

The wolf got back on its feet and locked his jaws onto the bear’s leg. Carter attacked with his knives. The man was quicker than she’d thought he would be.

They made short work of the animal, and it slumped to the ground, dead. Carter rushed to Tommy, still huddled and crying on the ground.

“You’re okay,” Carter said soothingly. “You’re safe. The beast didn’t know he was messing with the Bear Killer.”

He helped the child to his feet, and the other kids swarmed around him, offering their support.

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