Message for the Dead (Galaxy's Edge Book 8) by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

Author:Jason Anspach & Nick Cole [Anspach, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Galaxy's Edge, LLC
Published: 2018-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

18

The Emperor’s Inner Sanctum

Overlord

Owens stepped back. Two steps. Slowly. Inches at a time. Even the elite praetorian guard of shock troopers seemed transfixed by X’s willing confession. They stood in stunned silence. Many of them had probably been leejes. Once.

But to Owens none of that mattered.

What mattered was a message. A message of payback for the crimes that had been committed. The crimes Owens had just listened to as X spilled his guts to… to… the emperor.

Goth Sullus.

Owens wasn’t going to wait for this Goth Sullus, this emperor, upon hearing the end of X’s confession, to decide that he no longer needed the crew and passengers of the Audacity and their pathetic white flag of parley.

It still sounded like X had one more card to play. But Owens needed to make sure the message—the message of what he’d heard the old man confess—got through.

He knew his life was most likely over.

He started to think about his wife. He loved her. They’d had plans. Plans that started after the Legion.

Few plans survive contact with the enemy.

The major grabbed the nearest shock trooper within the emperor’s throne room of gloom and shadows, pulled him backwards, and smashed his knee in a way it wasn’t meant to go. And in that one second of pain, the trooper let go of his wicked matte-black blaster It was a weapon better than anything the Legion had been able to field in years, due to a never-ending stream of budget cuts from the House of Reason… and now it fell into Owens’s hands.

He turned it effortlessly on those guarding him. He knew what to do. It was a high-tech blaster, but all blasters basically worked the same. Point and pull the trigger.

He didn’t even think about shooting X. Though… in a way… wouldn’t that have solved everything right there?

Keller had to know what had really been going on since before the Articles and Tarrago. Before Kublar even.

The Legion had to know that it had been used as nothing more than bait to draw out both the House of Reason and the mysterious Goth Sullus.

A message had to get through.

Owens ran through the shadowy dark of the emperor’s inner sanctum, chased by the hot streak of bolt fire.

He had a blaster and a twenty steps’ lead.

No matter what, the message had to get through.

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