Trapped (Reflections Volume 6) by Dean Murray

Author:Dean Murray [Murray, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fir'shan Publishing
Published: 2013-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I couldn't get Ash's words out of my head. He hadn't even flinched when Anton had opened him up with a knife. The one thing that had hit me from almost the first second I'd known Ash was the way that he'd single-mindedly gone after his goals. I couldn't imagine the level of torture required to make him unwilling to even entertain the possibility of being pulled back into a pack.

It was another thing that needed filed away. With Ash there were so many levels to him that I always felt like my subconscious needed time to process and fit the pieces together every time I learned something else about him.

Ash told me we'd be using pseudonyms and actually made me practice for a day and a half as we drove to the meet with the mercenaries, but once I saw just how hard it was not to slip, I realized how smart he was to force the issue despite my initial efforts to convince him otherwise. I became Jane and he became Jones.

The mercenaries were both exactly like I'd pictured them and nothing at all like I'd expected. We weren't the only ones using aliases. Some of the handles were obviously not the names the men had been born with, but I was pretty sure that even the relatively normal-sounding names were fake.

Hammer, Shiver, Shadow, Smith, Dieter. They were all waiting for us in a particularly desolate part of Arizona, and I was sure we were going to have problems as soon as I stepped out of the Hummer.

"Nobody said anything about a chick."

Ash shook his head. "Nobody said anything about a chick because there was no reason to mention it. Jane's fine. She's a bit wet behind the ears, but she's smart enough to keep her head down and take orders."

Hammer, a gigantic Native American, smiled, but it didn't make it to his eyes. "I've got some orders I'd really like to give her."

Something about the way he said it left no doubt but that he'd been trying to be obscene. It was completely out of character for me, but I found my hand going towards my pistol. Ash was there already, moving so fast I almost couldn't follow the motion.

One second Ash was next to me, the next he was towering over Hammer who'd somehow ended up on his knees with Ash's pistol pressed up against his temple.

"Just be glad I got here first. I said she was wet behind the ears, I didn't say she was harmless. You can refund my money and walk away right now, or you can shut up and do your job. Which is it going to be?"

I'd meant to stop drawing my gun when Ash moved, but somehow it had still ended up in my hands and pointed vaguely in the direction of the other four mercenaries. Things had gone from calm and collected to imminent, deadly violence in a couple of heartbeats.

Everyone was suddenly being very careful not to move too quickly.

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