Ruthless (Detyen Warriors Book 2) by Rudolph Kate & Huntress Starr

Author:Rudolph, Kate & Huntress, Starr [Rudolph, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kate Rudolph
Published: 2018-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I RIS HAD NEVER BEEN so glad to wake up, and she’d never been more certain that waking would never come. It had been a desperate move to encourage Toran to attack the guards set on killing them, but better desperate than dead. For a moment she thought they’d blinded her, as the room they were stuck in was almost pitch black, but her eyes found the small sliver of light coming through a window on one of the walls. She’d seen that window before from the outside.

They were in one of the incinerators.

Iris sucked in a breath, and tried to keep her calm. It was warm in the incinerator, but the fire hadn’t started, and she couldn’t give up, not yet. Not while she was still alive. Not while Toran was breathing shallowly next to her. He was still unconscious. She ran her fingers lightly over his chest. It was a soft touch that wouldn’t have woken him from a normal sleep, and it certainly wasn’t enough to rouse him from unconsciousness. Iris took a step further and swiped her lips against Toran’s forehead.

“Come on,” she said. “I need you to wake up. We need to find a way out of here.” She looked around, unsure of what she would find. She’d never seen the inside of an incinerator before, especially not one located on a moon base. But the contents seemed no different than what she would find on Earth. It was hard to see, but her eyes were quickly adjusting, and she could make out the dark lines and shadows of the piled refuse within the kiln. If she were standing, most of the trash would only come up to her knees. The ceiling wasn’t high—Toran would have to stoop if he were standing—but the relative emptiness of the room gave her hope. Perhaps they had time and someone would discover them. Surely the base would want to fill the room up with more trash before wasting energy to destroy it.

She forced herself to take a step back from Toran and look for something that might be useful. Maybe there was something she could use to pry the door open, or a disposed med kit that still had enough supplies to tend to any of Toran’s injuries. She worked her way through the nearest pile, navigating by touch and trying not to cringe any time her hand encountered something gross. In the first few minutes after waking she’d been too focused on the situation to notice the stench in the room. Rotten food and smoke, along with something acrid and chemical. It couldn’t be healthy to breathe it all in, but she would worry about that later. It would be even less healthy to be in the room when the fire started.

Toran groaned as he stirred, and Iris gave up the search for anything useful and rushed back to him, kneeling by his side and holding herself back from hugging him to make sure that he was okay.

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