Taken (The Condemned Series Book 2) by Alison Aimes

Author:Alison Aimes [Aimes, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orchid Publishing
Published: 2018-07-30T18:30:00+00:00

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“Shit.” Ryker yanked her closer. “The impatient bastard’s seizing his moment, even if it gets you killed. Hollisworth won’t be happy, but by the time he reigns in his overzealous enforcer it could be too late.” He raised his voice to reach the other men on the team. “Close in around her and the ore—we can’t afford to lose either.”

She raised her ax higher. Tried to locate Pratt in the mad shuffle.

Behind her, an anguished roar sounded. “Ava!”

She didn’t look back. Couldn’t.

Her attackers had reached them.

She swung hard, swiping at the hands attempting to pull her from the tight circle.

“Not on my watch.” Ryker’s boot came down on a grasping wrist. A howl sounded. The hand disappeared.

Gratitude whispered through her.

Valdus’s men could easily have abandoned their posts and left her. After all, it wasn’t them the hordes wanted and their only proof that she and the ore could help them was her own assertion.

“Stand strong.” Ryker’s call to his men held nothing but determination.

“No other way to go.” Green-eyed Griffin buried his ax in the shoulder of a man who screamed and staggered back.

Bain uncorked one of the strange instruments jangling on his harness and tossed out the liquid inside. It splashed on the face and bodies of two advancing men. A bitter citrus smell soaked the air. The men screamed, dropped to their knees, their bodies writhing as they rubbed their eyes and shrieked.

But the hordes kept coming, trampling over the downed bodies, an army of feral, red-caked creatures ignited by bloodlust.

She and the others couldn’t hold out much longer.

Not even now that the drones had begun firing into the crowd.

And Draeke knew it.

Over the screaming, she heard his relentless commands. “Get her. Focus all your efforts on bringing those bastards down. Just make sure she’s alive. She must be alive.”

She stifled a shudder.

Griffin dropped to his knees. Crimson red splashed onto the ground.

She didn’t think. Just lunged forward and swung. Her ax sending his attacker stumbling back before he could finish the blow and deaden the flash of green in his gaze forever.

Ryker was there the next instant, shoving the bleeding man, and then her, into the middle of the circle before closing the hole they’d left.

But the circle was weakening.

Curling her arm under Griffin’s armpits, she half dragged, half yanked the wounded man deeper into the center—and would have gotten nowhere—except that he was backpedaling as well. She landed on her ass—and knocked into the pile of ore. Several jagged pieces tumbled from the sled.

But there was no time to retrieve them as Griffin rolled to the side, clutching his stomach, his eyes glazed with pain. “Don’t worry about me. Watch yourself.”

Tearing at what was left of the sleeve of her uniform, she yanked it off. Wadding it up and placing it on the wound.

His low groan left her flinching with sympathy.

A blast of nearby laser fire sent a rush of heat near her shoulder. Shrieks sounded. Rock exploded. Her flesh stung by debris as it imbedded in her cheek and neck, a thousand tiny sharp needles.

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