The Ravagers Box Set: Episodes 1-3 by Alex Albrinck

Author:Alex Albrinck [Albrinck, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fabinarium Publications, LLC
Published: 2017-04-22T21:00:00+00:00

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RODDY LIGHT

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AS CONSCIOUSNESS RETURNED, Roddy’s mind vaguely noticed the faint pressure along his back, thighs, calves, and heels, barely registered that such pressure indicated that he lay on his back. His focus moved to the fiery heat in his head, searing through his mind like molten lava. Roddy tried squeezing his eyes closed, tighter and tighter, in an effort to expel the pain from his mind. He succeeded only in grinding his teeth.

His fingers scrabbled for something, anything, to squeeze, to crush, to transfer the pain from his mind to something outside his body. The tips of his fingers grazed something soft, something that felt like a simple sheet, and then found the edge of a thin mattress. His grip pincered closed, with a vice-like intensity that would shred the mattress if he pulled his arm back. The grinding of his teeth barely covered the sound of someone whimpering.

Him.

He’d withstood all forms of physical torture as part of his Special Forces initiation. They’d all withstood and delivered it to prepare themselves for a war that had never come, to ensure nothing would entice them to give some key piece of information to an enemy that would take any edge and use it for the West’s destruction. But that was physical pain, physical torture. This was mental pain, something deep below the level of conscious thought, a sensation that they’d probed and prodded his very soul.

They’d not been gentle.

They were Oswald Silver, his boss and arguably the richest and most powerful man on the planet, and James Delaney, Roddy’s one-time Special Forces colleague and Silver’s sidekick. Roddy had known the latter as Gambit, learning the man’s real name only after reaching this place. He’d learned more than that, though. Delaney had been engaged to Deirdre Silver, only to see that arrangement terminated without warning or consultation by Oswald Silver to free Deirdre to marry someone else.

Roddy.

It had all been a sham. She’d never loved him, which now made the hurt and betrayal he’d felt at learning of her of infidelity a bit… confusing. If she’d chosen Delaney, was Roddy the other man who’d inserted himself between two people who’d committed themselves to each other for life? Delaney clearly thought so; he expressed his frustrations through his fists and boots any chance he could, something Silver didn’t discourage. Oswald Silver seemed to find the whole situation amusing.

What Silver didn’t find amusing was the fact that Deirdre was still back on the surface. He, Roddy, and Delaney existed in comfort and safety—though Roddy would question that last adjective in relation to himself—in a city-sized space station. Meanwhile, Deirdre and those left behind faced the Ravagers, a weapon that reportedly allowed no chance of escape or survival. Oswald didn’t care that millions of others had died or would die due to the deployment of that weapon. He didn’t care that Deirdre had murdered his lover, Audrey, moments before they’d left Diasteel Headquarters for this sanctuary in the sky. Life mattered only when it was his daughter.

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