The Blind War (The Shadow Wars Book 13) by Lusher S. A

Author:Lusher, S. A. [Lusher, S. A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: 1440 Fiction
Published: 2016-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 09

–Hostile Territory–

Allan thought they were making good time, but when lives were on the line, there was no such thing.

Every second that slammed by felt like another second too long, and they’d been walking for twenty minutes so far, going as fast as they could through the jungle. They were lucky that the power station wasn’t terribly far from their current position. A terse tension had fallen over the trio after they’d trashed the communications facility and gotten the call from Callie. The obvious question hung on the air: what had happened to Hollis and the others? There were all sorts of possibilities. Unfortunately, how it usually went was the grimmer the more likely.

And then there was the extra pressure of Callie leading her own team on ahead of the rest. What kind of threats might she be facing? But there was no time for that, never any time for that, and to focus on it was to invite distraction.

And to invite distraction was to invite death.

Every five minutes or so, Allan would attempt to contact someone, but it had been the same response each time: dead air.

The situation was looking grim.

Allan pushed his way through a particularly thick collection of leaves and branches, and as he stepped into the next clearing, nearly tripped over a dead meat puppet. He studied it for a moment as the other two came in.

“Hollis was here,” Hernandez said quietly.

Up ahead, there were another four corpses.

“We’re getting close,” Shaw replied.

“We need to hurry,” Allan said and stepped over the corpses. Their sentences were tight and terse, trying to break up the haze of tension that encapsulated them. Allan could feel his muscles bunching beneath his armor and tried to make himself relax. He needed to stay loose if he was going to get through this and come out the other side alive.

It took another five minutes before they came to the edge of the power complex. It was easily the biggest compound they’d come to so far on the planet. A huge central structure dominated the area. Most of the compound was obscured from view by a large, solid wall. Dead ahead of them, Allan spied a large hole blown in that wall, the edges of twisted metal singed and coated in soot. Hollis had decided to blast his way in, guns blazing.

Had it gotten him killed?

Allan listened for any indication of conflict: gunfire, shouting, explosions. But there was nothing, save for the deep hum of the power plant that was almost, but not quite, beyond the edge of human hearing.

Allan led the way through the opening, rifle in hand, ready for thunder and action. What he found, on the other side in a mostly walled off alcove, were a lot of dead bodies. Almost an even dozen. Riddled with bullets or broken by the blast. Hollis meant business. Allan led the way carefully across the field of corpses, keeping his eyes sharp, his head on a swivel. Shaw and Hernandez were silent behind him, cold competent warriors at his back, reassuring as hell.

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