Rivals by David Wellington

Author:David Wellington [Wellington, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: fantasy
Amazon: B009GA6CNO
Goodreads: 16082233
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28.

Shotgun pellets whizzed through the air, smashing across Maggie’s face and shoulders. One of them went past her head and hit Brent in the ear. It stung worse than any pain he’d ever felt and he dropped her arm and went down on one knee. He reached up and grabbed at his ear, then looked at his fingers, expecting them to be covered in blood. But apparently whatever the green fire had done to him and to Maggie, it had made them tough enough that the pellets couldn’t break their skin.

Maggie roared in pain but she didn’t go down. For a second her hands were on her face, scrubbing at it as if she could wash away the pain. Then she brought her hands down and looked back at Brent.

No. She glared at Brent. She thought he must have been in on this. That he had betrayed her. She reached out to grab him and he saw her face was unmarked, that she had taken a shotgun blast right in the head and it hadn’t really harmed her at all.

It had, however, pissed her off.

She grabbed him by the throat and lifted him off the ground. He tried to squirm out of her grasp as she pulled her arm back, but he felt weak and queasy, his body rebelling against him. Then she punched him right in the nose.

Blood squirted down the front of his shirt. His ears rang and his skull felt like it was spinning around underneath his scalp. He fell backwards, unable to stop himself, and landed flat on his back. The pain of the shotgun pellet hitting his ear was nothing compared to this—he thought he might throw up. He thought he might pass out.

“Turn around and put your hands against the wall,” the policeman said, pumping his shotgun. “I will shoot you again.”

All around them cops were running out from behind their cars, weapons drawn and pointed at Maggie. One of them had a taser, a flat white plastic gun with two prongs sticking out of its front. He fired and the prongs turned into darts that punctured her shirt. A pair of very thin wires were attached to the darts. There was a crackling sound and Maggie’s head jerked back for a second, but still she didn’t go down.

It seemed to Brent that she moved very slowly as she stepped toward the policeman, the one with the shotgun who had fired at her first. Brent saw him turning as if he was going to run away. Maggie didn’t give him a chance. She grabbed him by the straps of his bulletproof vest and swung him around as easily as if he was a toy. When she let go he flew through the air, his legs and arms flailing. He hit one of the police cars hard enough to crumple its hood. Brent could hear bones snapping inside his body and saw his face go slack as he slid down to the ground.

He wasn’t moving.

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