Primary Targets (Earth at War Book 2) by Rick Partlow

Author:Rick Partlow [Partlow, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pramantha Publishing
Published: 2020-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

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“Wake up, Andy.”

My eyes snapped open and I tried to sit up, but I was staring into the muzzle of a pistol.

“Shit.” The light in the room was dim, from a fixture in the hallway outside, just bright enough to see by, not enough to blind me even waking up from a dead sleep.

I looked past the pistol to the hand holding it. The furry, thick-nailed hand holding it. Then past that to the face of the Heltan, a face I would have recognized in a crowd of the aliens from across the room, the very first one I’d ever met.

“Joon-Pah.” I didn’t quite hiss the word, but that was only because I was half-awake. “What the hell are you doing here?”

“What?” Patel popped awake a day late and a dollar short, tossing the sleeping bag off of him and blinking in confusion. “What’s going on?”

“We have a guest, Doc.”. Moving slowly and carefully, I sat up, grimacing with the pain in my ribs as I did. “Someone I sure never expected to see again.”

“Oh, dear,” Patel said, eyes wide as they fixed on the gun.

And then I looked at it again. It was a Glock. It was my Glock.

“I know you must believe I betrayed you,” Joon-Pah said. “It had to have looked like I abandoned you. But I knew what was going to happen, and I judged I would be of more use to you if I were not dead or confined.” He shrugged. “It was a gamble. She might have had you killed immediately. But had I stayed and fought, it would only have ended with both of us on the run and me not very well qualified for it.”

“Where’d you get the gun?” I asked him, delaying admitting I understood because I was still angry and didn’t want him to be right.

“Right where you dropped it, Andy,” he said, putting an almost human tinge of teasing into the words. “I took my flyer and tracked your route until you went deep into the woods, then I had to give up and hope you’d find a way to contact me.”

“We didn’t intend to contact you,” I said. “We asked Brannas-Fel to call someone he trusted.”

“And he trusts me.” He tipped his head, then turned the gun around and offered it to me. “The question is, do you?”

I looked into those eyes, alien but so very human, and tried to read them.

“All right,” I said. “I guess we don’t have much choice.”

I took the gun and checked the load. It still had a round chambered, just like I’d left it, which meant Joon-Pah had been pointing a loaded fucking Glock with no safety at me. I wanted to slap him upside the head for violating the first rule of gun safety, but it would probably have hurt me more than it hurt him. I rolled over and slowly, painfully got to my feet, then tucked the gun into my belt.

“My flyer is outside,” Joon-Pah said. “What do you

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