Taken (Taken Series Book 1) by Stacy Jones

Author:Stacy Jones [Jones, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Aria and her men moved cautiously, but quickly, down the hallway, counting doors until they reached the room where Kix said Skaa was being held. She’d more than half expected to find sentries posted outside the door or along the hall. She took their absence as further proof Zhrovni was entirely too complacent with the security in this place. He thought he was in total control of his slaves.

Aria was more than happy to show him just how wrong he was.

Quickly punching in the code, she squeezed through the door the second it slid open far enough and scanned the room in the span of a heartbeat.

There was an ant lab worker who immediately darted to huddle against the back wall, a stasis tube in which Skaa lay motionless taking up the center of the room, and two bi-pedal, crocodile-looking guards, both facing the door as if they’d been waiting for her. She instantly zeroed in on the weapons strapped to holsters on their chests. They weren’t made like any handguns on Earth, but she’d seen enough science fiction movies that they weren’t entirely unfamiliar either.

So the bad guys have guns. Good to know.

Aria didn’t pause but took a running leap at the guard closest to her before he could pull his gun, trusting her men to handle the other.

His cold, greenish-golden eyes locked on her, and his upper lip pulled back in something halfway between a snarl and a smile. He caught her effortlessly as she launched herself at him and used her momentum to throw her sideways. She hit the wall so hard it knocked the breath out of her, but she was grinning viciously even as she slid to the floor gasping for air.

Just as she’d wanted, he’d been distracted with her flying at him and missed the knife she was hiding against her forearm.

He was a scary looking bastard and looked like a man-sized version of Godzilla, but she’d clocked the soft, fleshy scales on his throat the second she saw him and planned to end him, fast and painless, by stabbing him there. His throwing her into the wall threw off her plan a little, but he wasn’t quick enough to avoid her blade entirely.

His eyes went wide as blood spurted from the new gash in his neck, but instead of showing alarm, he looked… excited?

What the fuck?

Aria managed to convince her diaphragm to relax so she could drag in oxygen and pushed to her feet. Darting a glance at her men, she found them struggling against the other guard, but quickly focused back on the one facing her when he lunged at her.

Dropping down to avoid his swing, she came up blade first but only managed to catch him on the tough scales covering his bare chest. He had to be close to seven feet tall, and there was only a foot or so between them. She’d need more room to gain momentum in order to reach those soft throat scales again.

He reached for

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