Powerless (The Borders War Book 3) by S.A. McAuley

Author:S.A. McAuley
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Published: 2016-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

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“Five minutes out.”

The radio crackled with Simion’s voice in my ear. He was tracking the movements of the last remaining Committee member via a hack into his tracker. I still didn’t have a comm, but Chen had worked with Feliu on a device that combined radio waves and the device implanted in my cortex that tied to my auditory system. Old technology meeting new.

I still couldn’t receive transmissions from across the globe, but it meant that I could communicate with someone from a distance of miles instead of feet and I didn’t have to use my hands to activate it. I wore a thin strip of polymaterial over my throat to carry my end of the transmissions back to Simion, who was stationed in a Revolution safe house in a nearby village.

I looked through the riflescope, keeping the rest of my body completely still. I didn’t worry about being sighted—I was nearly two miles away from the elegant, oversized house built into the mountains of the Wildes of the UU. I’d been outfitted with a suit that masked my vitals and heat signature and I was set up with my sonicrifle for the first time in over a year.

This Committee member knew I was coming for him next and I had no way to get close enough to slit his throat. But his hamartia would be his insistence on living as a part of the natural world. He didn’t use shields, transport or any form of modern food or medicine. I agreed with him when it came to genetmod food, but otherwise the guy was asking to have his brain exploded in a very unnatural way.

Luckily for us, he’d been forced into having a tracker chip implanted, or it would’ve been nearly impossible to locate him at all.

“Did you hear what Chen uncovered?” Simion asked over the radio.

“The encryption key?” I replied snidely.

Simion chuckled. “I’m prone to think that doesn’t exist.”

“Me too. What did she find?”

“The location to a store of books supposedly hidden underground on the coast of the AmFed. Jegs is putting together a team to investigate it. Still don’t know if it’s real, but it’s pretty fucking amazing to think about.”

“You ever seen a book, Sims?”

“No way. Don’t think I’d want to touch one even if I did. My leg may be fucked-up, but my hands are still more likely to crush and kill than savor.”

I remembered that book in the UU and how I’d thought the same thing in that moment. I snorted. “Please tell me you’re not fucking anyone right now.”

Simion scoffed. “Uh-huh. Crippled, with a death wish, and likely to strangle anyone in my sleep who tries to cuddle me. I’ve got a queue of men a mile long. Three minutes out.”

“Chen will crack the infochip wide open someday,” I said with surety.

“Maybe. Maybe not. Not sure if it matters as much anymore.”

I rested my cheek against the stock of my rifle as a memory of Armise came slamming back to me.

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