Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Protecting Butterfly (Kindle Worlds Novella) (SEALed Fate Book 1) by LeTeisha Newton

Author:LeTeisha Newton [Newton, LeTeisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Katya

Gunshots. She heard gunshots. Pitiful wails filled the room as her fellow captives huddled around her and pushed close to her legs. There was nowhere to run in there. No way to be free. And she couldn’t move. Still tied the chair, she couldn’t offer any sort of protection.

“They’ve come to kill us all.”

“Allah, be merciful!”

The terrified cries made her heart skip. All the commotion was much different than any day before. The possibility that this may be the last day she breathed... She shook her head. Fear crippled the mind, froze the limbs, and stilled the tongue. She may be afraid, but she refused to be some damsel in distress.

“Quiet,” she urged. “They wouldn’t be killing their own men like that. Another group coming in for ISIS would join them. Someone is attacking them. It could be an ally.”

“They would kill us before you. You are important to them, we are not.” Zaid’s gaze bore into her in the low light. His face was grimy with old blood and sand. But she saw his fear. Knew it intimately.

“Then free me, I will stand in front of you.”

“You lie.”

“In this small room we all could die, but I am willing to go first. What do you have to lose? It could give you a chance to fight.”

Zaid glared at her for a few moments before his gaze softened. “You are fierce.”

“I am terrified,” she answered.

“But you will stand for us?”

“Yes.”

“Then you are more brave than afraid. This is good. Help me, brothers.”

Pain laced through her as the men pulled at the ropes tying her down to the chair. They were not gentle, either too afraid to try, or they realized that it would take too much time. She bit her lip until she tasted blood as the shots came closer. They didn’t have much time.

“Hurry,” she cried.

“We are.”

She sucked in a breath as the rope at her waist fell loose in her lap. She whimpered as her wrists were freed, her arms, and her ankles at the end. As the blood rushed back into her limbs pins and needles punctured her skin, slicing through the numb areas. She groaned, pressing her palms against the arms of the chair to hoist herself up. She couldn’t get up much more than a few inches before she fell back down. Trying once more, she gnashed her teeth and struggled to stand.

Her back was stiff and her legs weak, every breath a battle to take. Sand stuck to her lips and she inhaled the tiny grains. They rubbed her throat raw from the inside, but she still pushed to stand. Up. Get up. Once you’re on your feet, you will stay there. Rough hands braced her arms and back before they pushed her to her feet. The world spun on its axis, the colors on the wall morphed and twisted. She blinked hard.

“Get back, and huddle along the wall, out of the light,” she said to them.

“Are you ok—” one asked.

“Do as I say! We don’t have time.

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