The Bearens' Hope by Phillips Laura Jo

Author:Phillips, Laura Jo [Phillips, Laura Jo]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 1468174339
Publisher: The author
Published: 2012-03-17T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 41

“I love you, Harlan Hontza,” Ellicia said..

“Lucky me,” Harlan replied, giving her one last peck on the nose. “Now, let’s go attend our engagement party.”

“All right, but first, you owe me a secret,” she said.

“I was hoping you’d forgotten that,” he said with a grin.

“Not likely,” Ellicia replied archly.

“All right, I owe you a secret,” he agreed with a chuckle. “But later, all right?”

“All right,” she agreed. “But don’t think I’m going to forget, because I won’t. And it has to be a good one too.”

Harlan opened his mouth to reply, but whatever he had been about to say froze in his mouth at the sounds coming from the living room. The breaking of glass. A scream. The distinctive buzz of an energy weapon.

Before Harlan had a chance to react the bedroom door flew open to reveal the head caterer, a tall woman dressed in white, pointing a hand laser at them. Just as she squeezed the trigger someone fell into her from behind. The weapon’s beam hit Ellicia high on her left thigh as Harlan yelled “No!”. He leapt forward but the woman was too fast. She caught her balance and raised the weapon and fired again. Harlan was only five feet from her, so there was no possibility that she would miss. And she didn’t.

Ellicia watched with horror as then narrow, but powerful, beam hit Harlan in the chest, then sliced down his abdomen leaving a blossoming trail of bright red behind it. Harlan’s hands rose to his chest as he crumpled backward to the floor with no more than a soft grunt of surprise. Ellicia tore her eyes from Harlan in time to see the woman step into the room and take aim at her. Ellicia knew at once that there was nothing she could do. Her life’s blood was pumping from her leg, and she had no chance of moving quickly enough to get out of the way. She could only remain where she was and wait for death to come.

Suddenly the woman screamed and dropped her weapon to the floor, both hands flying to her head. Ellicia glanced up with startled eyes, puzzled by what she was seeing. The sight was so strange that it took her a moment to figure out what it was.

The woman screamed again and began slapping at her head as she spun around in circles, trying to put out the fire that had appeared from nowhere. Within seconds the woman’s hair was fully engulfed in flames which were beginning to spread down to her shoulders. Ellicia forced herself to crawl forward enough to reach the weapon the woman had dropped only a few feet from her. It took her a few moments to reach it, pain and weakness causing black spots to flash before her eyes. She ignored them and gripped the hand laser, aiming carefully for the burning woman’s head before firing. The woman’s screams stopped abruptly and she crumpled to the floor the same as Harlan had.

Ellicia

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