Wings of the Seraph: The Complete Series by Sarah Hawke

Author:Sarah Hawke [Hawke, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: space, opera
ISBN: 9781791355029
Amazon: 1791355021
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2018-12-09T22:00:00+00:00

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Between Master Mosaad, Kaveri, and our strafing run with the Valkyries earlier, all of the Convectorate mechs had apparently been disabled. We didn’t get locked down in a single firefight as we raced back through the base, Kaveri and I on point, and I was just about ready to declare victory until we reached the northern landing pad. The good news was that Master Mosaad and the other transports had already taken off.

The bad news was that a dozen combat mechs, a Baalir commando, and a hauntingly familiar blond-haired human woman had taken their place.

“Fuck!” I hissed, squeezing off a few quick shots with my pistol before I flattened back around the corner. Kaveri unleashed a salvo as well, but the pulse blasts broke over the commando’s scales like water on rocks.

“Lower your weapons and surrender!” the Baalir growled. “I will not ask again.”

I raised my hand and signaled for the others to hang back. Kaveri took up position opposite me, her glowing eyes locked on Spider Zero. The woman’s blue-gold Dominion military uniform looked even more out of place while standing next to a Tarreen and a bunch of Convectorate mechs.

“Seraph save us,” Shandris rasped from behind me. “That’s her? That’s the Spider who let you go?”

“Apparently, she had a change of heart,” I muttered. I would have given just about anything for a nice, one-on-one conversation with this woman right now, preferably without her pistol aimed at my face. But apparently my luck had run out.

The Baalir snarled through his fangs and took a menacing step forward. He wasn’t carrying a weapon or wearing armor—between his claws, his fiery breath, and his nearly invulnerable hide, he didn’t need them. Even the weakest Tarreen was basically a living assault mech.

“There is no escape, dreega filth,” he snarled. “You will join us, or you will die.”

“Anyone have a spare nuke in their back pocket?” I asked quietly. “If not, I’m open to ideas.”

“My camouflage might allow me to sneak past them from the exit further down,” Raxyl said, his scales shimmering orange. “Unfortunately, our weapons will be of little use against a Tarreen.”

I grimaced and turned to Kaveri. “Could you throw him off the landing pad?”

“Not easily,” she whispered. “He’s too dense. I would need to concentrate, and I doubt Spider Zero will give me the opportunity.”

I nodded and bit down on my lip. “I could try the time-slowing trick I used earlier. Maybe I could slip into the Gazack and—”

“Cole Vontera!”

I paused at the sound of Spider Zero’s crisp Keledonian accent. Half my brain remembered that same voice begging me to impregnate her; the other half reminded me that it had all been in my head.

“Admiral Ferron promises that he will show you mercy, but only if you surrender willingly,” she called out. “His quarrel is with the Last Blade. The rest of you will be delivered to the Widow in accordance with Convectorate law.”

I snorted before calling back, “That’s not much of an offer.”

“No, it is not. And you would be foolish to take it.

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