Angel Descended by Matthew S. Cox

Author:Matthew S. Cox [Cox, Matthew S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949174342
Publisher: Division Zero Press
Published: 2019-01-29T22:00:00+00:00

30

Exiled Again

Althea

Ripples of blurry air surrounded Kate; the heat wafting from her body made Althea lean away, clinging to Shepherd’s side. She glared at Hector with a mixture of rage and pity. The man had caused all this death, and once again threatened Karina, but she did not want him to die. His friends’ anger had faded. As soon as her clothing flash burned, Kate had filled them with the same emotion raiders gave off during wifeing.

Hector, on the other hand, couldn’t take his stare away from Althea, enraged to the point he didn’t feel human anymore. She forced calm over him, sapping the hate from his sneer. She had to believe Father had protected Karina. Conflict gripped her heart. In addition to the people around her, at least one more had probably died in Querq. Her hope the assassin who tried to kill Karina had been killed (instead of her sister) made her feel ashamed. She clung to the possibility that Father may have only wounded the man.

“You miss your brother so much, asshole?” Kate hauled her arm back, fireball in hand. “Let me set up a meeting.”

“No!” screamed Althea. “Please don’t! There is too much dying.”

Hector’s friends stared at the fireball, lust withering to fear in an instant. They all made the sign of the cross, dropped their rifles, and ran.

Althea let go of Shepherd and reached for Kate’s arm. She drew back before contact, due to the heat. “Please don’t kill him. That’s what it wants.”

“Sorry, Althea.” Kate narrowed her eyes. “I know you did something to my head. You’re like my daughter, and this son of a bitch tried to kill you. If you hadn’t asked for me to come out here with you”—Kate shuddered, trails of steam wisped from the corners of her eyes—”you’d be dead. Blown to pieces. I’m going to melt this cocksucker’s skin off.”

Althea tamped down Kate’s fury. “I’m sorry. I wanted to protect you from the Sentience.”

“It’s okay.” Kate blinked, looking confused by her sudden calm. “I honestly don’t mind, but this shithead is going to burn.”

Estevez, Garcia, and Hernandez muttered amongst themselves, debating shooting Hector. Garcia held them off since Althea had asked.

“Rachel said some people deserve to die.” She looked up from the ground to Hector. “I don’t think he is evil.”

Nelson groaned and sat up, leaning on the guardrail. He clamped his hand over the bullet wound in his arm. Althea looked at him.

He pointed at the ravine. “I’m okay, Miguel first.”

“He is.” Shepherd’s hand engulfed Althea’s left shoulder. “Look what he did to Miguel, just to draw you out here. Montez is dead. Those men he convinced to help him are dead. He sent another man to murder your sister. That is evil.”

Althea reached across her chest to put her hand on Shepherd’s. “Hector shot Karina once. She almost died. I got angry and hurt him, but it was wrong. Pain does not fix pain.” She looked up at him. “When Karina almost died, I knew how Hector felt about Emilio.

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