The Rising Trilogy Complete Box Set by Amy Miles

Author:Amy Miles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, adventure, science fiction, aliens, fate, love triangle, survival, thrill, apocacylptic
Publisher: Amy Miles

THIRTEEN

I didn’t expect him to want to speak to me as we emerge from the church and catch our first real glimpse of the town in the rising dawn. A brilliant sheen glistens over the iced ground as we descend the church steps.

Up close, I can see this place took a bad beating, although it’s hard to see if it was from the initial invasion or scavengers traipsing through since then. There is extensive damage to nearly every building within sight. Brick homes laid waste, nothing more than crumbled heaps. Wooden clapboard-sided buildings show extensive scorch marks. Roofs torn off or collapsed in. Mailboxes melted and disfigured. Play sets torn apart and rusted, rising from lawns filled with waist-high wild grasses.

There are signs still hanging over some of the buildings on what I would guess used to be the main street. The lettering is almost completely rubbed out. Everything is faded and broken, left to rot in the elements.

The sidewalks are cracked and pockmarked. Remnants of cars, smashed nearly flat, line the streets. “What could have done that?” I ask, staring in dismay as we pass.

“Tanks.”

I turn to look at him. “Human weapons?”

He nods. “They rolled over this town and kept right on going by the looks of it. We aren’t too far from an old military base. My guess would be that this place was evacuated before they bulldozed it to the ground.”

A shudder worms its way through me as I spy a small foot sticking out from the tall grasses. Too small to be human. I wrap my arms about my waist, realizing some little girl left behind her toy.

“Illyria.”

I turn at the sharp edge to his tone. When I do, I come face to face with a woman and a charged laser gun. Bastien calls out a warning, but it’s too late. I instantly drop to a crouch and knock her feet out from under her.

I’m rewarded with a cry of pain as she lands on her tailbone, her gun clattering away. My knife is in my hand and I’m dipped low by the time she leaps back to her feet. She is tall, shapely, and quick on her feet.

She moves with the grace and ease of a panther as she matches me step for step. I would think her olive skin and silky chestnut hair to be stunning if she weren’t trying to take my head off.

The instant she glances toward her gun, I lunge and slam my shoulder into her torso. We sprawl to the ground and her legs wrap around me, tightening against my knife arm. I buck and land punches into her side, but she doesn’t relent. The muscles along her neck cord as she fights to loosen my grip on my weapon.

“Enough.”

Bastien’s command startles me enough that I actually do let go of my knife. It clatters to the ground and I realize I’m free of her hold.

Pressing against the ground, I leap to my feet, cautious and confused. The girl shakes out her hair, adjusting the collar of her uniform.

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