Dash (Alpha Heroes Book 11) by Anna del Mar

Author:Anna del Mar [Mar, Anna del]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
Published: 2024-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Thena

“Incoming,” Kai reported, casing the sky with his rifle. “Get ready to rumble.”

He’d barely finished his sentence when the drone swooped down from the sky. It was shaped roughly in the form of an airplane but much smaller, yet also much larger than the recreational drones I’d seen. It flew low and fast, crossed on the other side of the burning tree, and slammed into the gap.

The explosion shook the earth beneath me. The blast shot through my body, stealing my breath. The acrid scent of ashes and smoke choked my throat. It smelled as if someone had burned a steak. Or twenty.

For a second, all I could do was stare at the spot where I’d last seen Dash. It now burned like hell on earth. The forest where he’d once hidden was also on fire and the flames were spreading quickly.

“Dash.” My whisper turned into a whimper and my fingers tightened around his cane. “Dash, where are you?”

“Say again?” Kai whisper-shouted into his comms. Whatever information he received, it had him scrambling to his feet. “Come on.” He stuck his hand under my arm and pulled me up to my feet. “We gotta go. Now.”

My feet refused to move. My body felt heavy as lead. My hearing was iffy. Everything felt muted, blurred, distant. I knew I was in shock, but I didn’t have a way to get myself going. Had Tracker Team been destroyed on its first mission? Could anyone be alive after the devastation I’d witnessed? Was Dash dead?

For a woman who’d never been to war, whose brother had died in combat, and who might have just also lost the love of her life, this was too much. I couldn’t stop staring at the fire consuming my only hope for happiness.

Kai shoved his shoulder into my middle, draped me over his side, and holding me in a fireman’s carry, ran up the hill as if I were nothing but a sack of lettuce. The back of his legs and heels came in and out of my sight as he jumped from one stone to the next.

The only thing I could do was cling to Dash’s cane. It was as if I held his life in my hands and nobody could rip him out of existence for as long as I clutched the cane.

Kai reached the far woods and weaved through the trees, moving in the direction opposite to the fire. My bones rattled and my rib caged bounced on his shoulder, and yet I felt numb everywhere. The sounds of a fierce firefight came from the sky.

From the sky?

This wasn’t over. Oh, my god. Whoever had attacked us was not content with just blowing the team—and his own hires—to pieces. They were hunting us. From up above. More drones?

“Let me down,” I called out. “I can run.”

Kai took cover beneath the canopy of an enormous elm. He swung me down from his shoulder and deposited me on my feet. He grabbed my face between his hands and stared into my eyes.

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