The Final Dawn by Jess Anastasi

Author:Jess Anastasi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jess Anastasi; Entangled Publishing; Amara; Stand Alone Romance; Series Romance; Single Tite Romance; Atrophy Series; Space Opera; Ensemble; Romance; Love; Science Fiction; Paranormal; Shape Shifters; Aliens; Space Pirates; End of the World; End of the Universe; Action Adventure Romance; Revenge; Redemption Romance; Otherworld; Invasion; Enemies to Lovers Romance; Bad Boy Reformed Romance; Across the Tracks Romance; Forbidden Love; Opposites Attract Romance; Revenge; Military; Ugly Duckling; Tortured Hero; Priestess; Spaceship; pilot
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

The sonic boom of something entering the atmosphere made their little hiking party pause. Qae looked toward the sky, where streaks of weapon fire cut across the inky darkness.

“What the hell is that?” Colt was the first one to voice the question. “Is someone attacking Erebus?”

“Not the planet,” Varean answered in a foreboding tone. A second later, there was a ripple high in the atmosphere when the weapon fire apparently found a target. A ship materialized out of nowhere. Clearly, whatever cloaking capabilities it’d been using had failed.

“That’s not—” Lianna started, denial clear in her tone.

“Yeah, it is.” Varean’s entire body looked like one huge, taut bowstring.

Qae swore under his breath, watching in helpless frustration as the ship took a direct hit and tumbled out of control before partly righting itself. The ship was going to crash. He only hoped it didn’t get hit by another round of weapon fire. If they went in for a rough landing, there was a chance Ella, Zahli, and the Mar’keish would survive. If they were hit by another stream of ammo—

His heart pounded hard as the ship—flames trailing from the back end—dropped below the line of the horizon. A few moments later, there was an echoing boom like a crack of thunder.

“We need to get to them. How far do you think—” Qae lost the words as a blast of weapon fire lit up the night sky. A direct hit on where the ship had gone down.

“No!” Varean ran a few steps forward and then dropped to his knees as a massive explosion eclipsed the entire night sky, leaving Qae blinking against the blinding flare. He swallowed against the tightness in the back of his throat, disbelief making everything feel surreal.

Behind him, Tannin wailed—the sound almost animalistic—leaving a shiver ripping down Qae’s spine.

God, that ammo had hit barely a minute after the ship had gone down. Had Ella and Zahli been able to escape? Christ, if they ever managed to find a way to bring Rian out of Reidar assassin mode, the guy would probably set fire to the entire galaxy if he returned to find the two of them dead. That thought was almost more terrifying than Rian’s current killer-droid mode, because Rian would be fully cognizant of his actions. He glanced over at Rian, who was leaning on a nearby boulder and staring at them with the same emotionless yet calculating gleam in his gaze, as if he was spending his time debating the merits of different ways he could kill them should the mood strike.

He hurried over to where Kira was standing next to Varean with her hand on his shoulder. Qae scuttled around him and knelt in front of the commando, who had his hollow gaze fixed on the glow beyond the near horizon.

“Varean, use the entanglement.” He clamped one hand on Varean’s shoulder and grabbed his chin with the other hand, forcing the guy to look at him. “You can feel Ella or something, right? You’d know if she was dead.

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