Rush: Intergalactic Dating Agency (Operation Outreach Book 2) by Elle Thorne

Author:Elle Thorne [Thorne, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbed Borders Press
Published: 2017-09-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Katrina and Baldy had left the main area of the marketplace and made their way among several less populated alleys, Katrina dragged ass, walking as slow as she could. She had no idea who this Persima was, but it didn’t really sound like someone Katrina wanted to get acquainted with. Let’s face it, if Baldy is anxious for me to get there, then it can’t possibly bode well for me, can it?

He tugged on her arm. “Stop that.”

She didn’t.

He warned again.

Katrina shouldn’t have been surprised when he grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder. All she could see now was his broad back way too close to her face. She pounded on his back.

He reached up and delivered a sound slap to the back of her thigh, almost where her ass was. Even more infuriated, she kept punching on his back.

Until her hand struck something hard.

She looked at it. The hilt of the sword. She grabbed it, and, praying it wasn’t too heavy to wield from her position, she heaved mightily.

The sword freed itself from its scabbard and was in her grip. Without pausing to think, she struck at his leg.

Seconds later, she was on the ground, the sword next to her, the breath knocked out of her, a bump bleeding on her forehead, and a very pissed-off Baldy staring down at her.

“You’ll pay for that.” He snatched the sword, housed it in its scabbard, and tied it in place with angry, jerky motions. Then he ripped his shirt off and tied it around his leg above where she’d slashed through the fabric of his pants and his flesh.

Judging from the blood blossoming on his trousers, she’d done a pretty good job. She’d have smiled if she weren’t in so much pain.

Katrina rubbed her hip, wondering if bones were fractured. It hurt to breathe, so maybe she’d broken a rib.

He scowled, his gaze fierce. “Do I carry you? Or will you be walking to Persima’s?”

She glanced around, weighing her options. Wondering how likely it was she could escape.

Then she noticed the shifty-eyed gazes locked on her. They want me to make a move. They’ll kidnap me and…

Would fate with them be worse than Baldy? He hadn’t…

She didn’t know, but the looks in their eyes scared her more than the look in Baldy’s. “I’ll walk, but if you thought I was slow earlier, it had nothing on how slow I’ll be now. I think you broke something.”

His brows drew down on his tanned face. “You are responsible for this. And this.” He pointed to his leg.

He started to walk, limping as he favored his new injury. Katrina struggled to her feet and followed behind, not because she planned to make a mad dash for freedom, but she felt like she’d pass out from the pain of trying to breathe and walking on a hip that punished her every step she took.

It may have seemed like they walked forever, but it probably hadn’t been five minutes. Baldy stopped at a building painted deep scarlet, very different from the other adobe buildings and wooden structures.

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