Rade's Fury (Argonauts Book 7) by Isaac Hooke

Author:Isaac Hooke
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Published: 2017-05-28T06:00:00+00:00

seventeen

Rade was faced with a terrible choice. A choice no father should have to ever make.

He had no time for thought, only action. He could not think, could not dare contemplate what he was about to do, lest he change his mind.

He scrambled to his feet and rushed out into the open, heading toward his son. He moved as if in a trance, like a man watching his own life seep away before him. All of his being focused on that tiny arm, and those veins, those terrible dark veins, spoiling that beautiful pale skin. The rest of Alex’s body was convulsing; the aReal goggles protected him from the outside world no more.

Rade didn’t care if he was struck by the enemy while he was exposed like that. In fact, he almost hoped a laser would find his heart so he could join his son in death. So he could avoid the pain of what he was about to do.

Rade shoved Cora aside and knelt between the pillar and the car. Shaw looked at him with sheer terror in her eyes. She had no idea what he was about to do. That terror was reserved entirely for their son, who she was watching die before her.

Death, an old friend.

Rade moved faster than he ever had in his life. There was no time... no time...

Rade dropped his rifle and pinned down Alex’s convulsing body, placing one knee on the shoulder, and outstretching the arm. He paid no attention to the black veins underneath the skin he touched. Gave no thought to potential contamination from the nano-machines that were multiplying in the tissues underneath, and poisoning the blood.

Rade unsheathed the X72 knife from his utility belt.

Seeing that knife, suddenly Shaw seemed to understand what he was about to do.

“Rade, no!” she said. “Rade! Stop!”

The corpsman’s voice at the back of his mind reminded him that the cut needed to be clean, aimed directly across the limb so that the blood vessels would seal off and help reduce the bleeding.

Rade obeyed that voice and struck the arm before Shaw could prevent him, or before he could stop himself. The laser edging of the knife activated and he cut clean through with a single hit, the laser coating partially cauterizing as the blade penetrated.

Alex stopped convulsing, apparently blacking out as his arm fell away.

Rade dropped the knife, rapidly removed his utility belt and tightened it around the squirting wound to act as a tourniquet. He fumbled only once, smearing his fingers with sanguine fluid, before securing the belt. The blood flow ceased.

Alex remained unconscious.

Rade glanced at the severed limb. It continued to blacken beside him.

Rade rolled up Alex’s sleeve, lifting it over the shoulder region, but so far there was no sign that the poison had spread.

Rade slumped, unable to believe what he had just done.

“My son,” Rade said, though his voice was lost in the storm, and the continuing battle. “My poor son.”

Something brutally shoved Rade to the concrete.

“What have you done!” Shaw screamed.

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