Spear's Search by N.J. Walters

Author:N.J. Walters [Walters, N.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

She’d thought he was going to kill her. He’d seen it in her eyes, the momentary flash of fear and accusation. He tried not to take it personally.

They were moving silently through the night, heading back toward his ship before any alarm was raised. He slipped his hand into his pocket and touched Ivar’s blaster and then the knife. He had a name. Whoever this Balthazar was, Spear would find him. He was one step closer to finding his brother.

His excitement was dimmed by the woman beside him.

She’d thought he was going to kill her.

His mind occupied, he reacted a millisecond too late to avoid the blast. But he’d moved enough to keep from taking it in the center of his chest. Small blessing. As he was thrown back, he flipped his body in the air, landing on one knee and skidding backward into the shadows of a darkened building.

Not for the first time, his battlesuit had saved his life. That blaster had been set to kill.

He was on the move, ghosting through the gloom before his mind caught up to the reality of the situation. Sass was racing toward a tall man dressed all in black, holding a blaster in his hand.

“Franco, you bastard. What have you done?”

The large male’s smile was cruel. This was one who enjoyed killing. And Sass knew him. Had she contacted Franco? Had she betrayed him?

“Why, I’ve disabled your friend. Artemis thought you could use some help.”

The crushing sensation in his chest wasn’t from the blaster hit. Disappointment, anger, and despair threatened to choke him. He’d believed Sass to be his destiny.

A cold sensation rushed through him, followed by blessed numbness. A man could still live without his heart. He was living proof.

They both had to die.

It would destroy him, but it had to be done. Duty had always sustained him. This time it would be the end of him.

“We both know that’s not why you’re here.” Sass sounded so calm and collected. Had he really known her at all? “She sent you to kill me.”

Franco raised the blaster, this time aiming it at Sass, who wasn’t wearing any kind of body armor.

The scene rewound in his brain, playing again, but this time with all the information. Artemis had likely tracked Sass through her communicator and sent someone to kill her. Her aim? To leave a dead-end for the Gravasians to trace. With the buyer dead and the auction items missing, the trail would go cold.

With a roar, Spear threw two knives in quick succession. The assassin dodged the first one but couldn’t avoid the second. It pierced his arm.

Well-trained and ruthless, Franco raised his good arm, weapon aimed at Spear’s face, having learned from his first attempt that hitting the body didn’t work.

Sass jumped at the man, taking him down. Their bodies entwined, they rolled across the ground. Someone groaned.

No! Don’t let it be Sass.

He reached them and pulled her body off the man. The knife was jammed straight into Franco’s heart. His eyes were open and empty, staring into a void of nothingness.

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