War (Allie's War Book 6) by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2013-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

11

FEARS

I thought I was dreaming at first, when the pounding started.

Well, I was dreaming, just not that part. Since I wove the sound into the dreams I was already having, however, the difference struck me as minimal, at best.

When Revik shook me gently awake, I found myself fighting to keep my eyes closed, protesting with feeble sounds when he only gripped me tighter. I felt the strong need to stay in the dreams, if only to see what happened next. I needed to see it, to know what to prepare for, and this felt like my only chance...the only way the information could possibly get to me in time. Not that it was a particularly pleasant dream, but the compulsion to understand overpowered my desire to not have to watch it unfold.

By then, the sound at the door had become a fleet of helicopters pounding over the ridge of snow-covered mountains...

"Baby, wake up," he murmured against my cheek. "Someone's here."

"Who?" I said, my eyes still closed.

I felt Revik extend his light, enough that I felt the answer before he voiced it aloud.

"Gaos...it's Wreg. Something's wrong, Allie..."

I found myself waking up, for real that time, even as Revik slid off the side of the bed and climbed to his feet. I rolled to my back as he was already fumbling in the dark with the handles to the dresser, jerking open drawers until he found a shirt and a pair of pants. The pounding started up again, but that time, I felt Revik send a pulse, telling him we were coming.

Once he had, the knocking abruptly stopped.

I glanced at the clock. We’d only been asleep a few minutes.

Revik’s hair was still wet, which meant mine had to be, too.

I watched him step into black pants, sans underwear, I noticed, feeling a flicker in my light, right before he fastened the front. His eyes glowed faintly in the dark room, and I found myself staring at him even after he was more or less dressed, the long, dark-brown shirt thrown over his shoulders, but open in the front. He walked quickly to the bed, his own light snaking out. He shook me gently with his hands, but I felt pain on him, too.

"Hey," he murmured, kissing me. "Stop flirting with me and get up. It’s something about Jon. I need you."

My light woke up for real that time.

I sat up and swung my legs out of bed.

I was fumbling through a different set of drawers in the bureau when Revik left for the other room. I pulled a long-sleeved, stretchy shirt over my head when Revik returned briefly, just long enough to dump the combat gear we'd left on the living room floor near the bathroom door.

"I'm going to let him in, okay?" he said.

I nodded, sending him a pulse of warmth.

He gave me a smile before heading back to the other room. Throwing on a pair of underwear and pants, I stuffed the combat clothes into the laundry chute after extracting the guns and holsters.

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