Meet Me In The Dark (Bad Heroes Book 3) by Jo Brenner

Author:Jo Brenner [Brenner, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High Rise Publishing
Published: 2024-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

17

Where the fuck was Micah?

As Kara glared at Chris, she worked to keep her face calm and body alert but relaxed. She was surrounded by masked, armed guards, dressed in military fatigues and holding guns. They were at the end of a long, dark corridor that split off into another perpendicular hallway. The whole place was grey and musty; cement dust and dirt everywhere. It reminded Kara of where she’d been held the last time she’d seen Christopher. The guards clustered in a semi-circle around Chris, Luke and Conor across from them, perfectly situated to be target practice.

Chris glared at her from the center, angry, but not worried. Understandable, given his backup, but he wouldn’t feel that way for long.

Luke and Conor had both whipped around to look at her. The utter relief on Luke’s face quickly turned to terror when he took stock of the situation. And the disbelief and love shining from Conor’s eyes, the way his hand shook as he raised it to brush her cheek, almost broke her resolve. All she wanted to do was turn into their arms, check them over to really prove they were alive. They both looked worse for wear: Luke cradling his left arm, dried blood crusted over one eye, cuts and bruises everywhere. Conor, dirt and blood smeared on his left side, didn’t look much better. Both were thinner, muscles and bones more pronounced. Had they even been fed? But at least they were there, standing, breathing. Alive.

She was determined to keep it that way.

“Sweetheart, run,” Luke ordered.

“Kara…” Conor trailed off, like he’d seen a ghost, and he wanted her to haunt him forever.

Good. She was going to.

“I’m not going to run,” Kara said. “I’m done running.”

“That’s a beautiful sentiment, sweetheart, but we didn’t sacrifice ourselves just so you could get yourself killed or taken again. We’re blocking the guards, go,” Luke said.

“No. I’m not letting either of you die.”

Conor growled. “Get the fuck out of here, brave girl. What the hell happened to following orders?”

“And where the hell is Micah?” Luke added.

“The whole point of this was to keep you safe,” Conor said.

Kara shook her head, making sure to look into Conor’s dark eyes and then Luke’s green ones, not letting herself get lost in either. “I’ll let you boss me around for the rest of our lives, I’ll submit to you whenever you make me, but not this. I won’t leave you behind, and I won’t ever give you up. I’m not heroic, either, boys. I’m fucking selfish and vindictive and I refuse to lose the men I love, especially to this asshole.”

Conor choked. “The men you…”

Before he could finish, the true villain interrupted. “As much as I hate to break up this little lovefest,” he sneered, “I feel it behooves me to point out that none of you are going anywhere. It seems you’re on a fool’s errand, Ms. Blum. A quite entertaining one to watch, but a fool’s errand all the same.”

Oh, this motherfucker. She couldn’t fucking wait to kill him.

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