Surrender the Sun Series Boxset: Books 1-3 by A.R. Shaw

Author:A.R. Shaw [Shaw, AR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apocalyptic Ventures
Published: 2018-03-24T22:00:00+00:00

13

The cries came in waves, men in agony calling out, begging for death’s swift breach. There was nothing he could do for them now. Pinned in, the Chinese had them cornered. Nearly out of ammo, he searched the darkened area around him for more from his fallen comrades using his NVGs. The night brought horrors, more so than any nightmare. The air was so thick with the smell of gunpowder that it was like a cold winter’s day with too much creosote to breathe in comfortably. It pained your lungs in time.

Then blinded by the light of an arsenal exploding, Bishop threw off the goggles, and the blackness brought about terrors of the unseen. There was no winning in war, only surviving. Finally, he felt around where he’d last seen the soldier’s body nearby and grabbed the magazine from his side waist. Nothing was ever easy. He had to painstakingly free debris by brushing away the mud collected around the equipment inside and then slide the magazine into the rifle. All the while, dead men were now calling out for their mothers. That’s when he knew their lives were almost over. Once they beckoned for her, they knew time was lost to them, only regretting her broken heart in the end.

He was saddened by the ensuing silence and angry he couldn’t save them. The helplessness forbade him from having mercy. Without a second thought, from somewhere deep inside, he refused to be pinned in no more. Bishop tore from his space and slaughtered all the enemy he could find, without any remorse or conscious human effort. Even the very young soldiers aiming at him, he ripped through them—if not by gunfire, then by blade. Some of the faces he saw were no more than twelve years old. He didn’t see them then, but he would see them in his dreams every night since.

“Bishop?”

A dim ray of light came with the voice. The voice he recognized as Maeve’s. She became the only light he would reach for. If it weren’t for her now, he’d continue the slaughter in his nightmares.

With effort, the darkness crumpled around him. His eyes fluttered open a small crescent. She stood above him, her red hair cascading down around her face. “Hi,” he said. Then panicked, he asked, “Where’s Ben?”

She smiled. He thought she might cry.

“He’s fine. He’s asleep. I hear you won the war.”

Confused for a second if she meant the nightmare he’d just awakened from, he chuckled. “I can’t take credit for that. It was a group effort.”

Her smiling eyes disappeared. She was serious now. “Bishop, you could have died trying.”

Lifting his arm with effort, he caressed her cheek. “We would have died without the spoils. We had to win the Osprey. I had no choice.”

She didn’t like the answer but kissed his hand anyway. “I’ve missed you.”

“How long have I been out?”

“Overnight. Jax put you to sleep.”

He sighed. “I’m not surprised. I think he’d knock us all out if he could, just for his own comfort.

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