Greed by Lana Pecherczyk

Author:Lana Pecherczyk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prism Press
Published: 2019-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Lilo couldn’t believe it. The hobo who’d tried to steal her jacket from the woman and baby had come after her! And he brought friends.

Of all the nerve and greedy cheek, to attack her after she’d already been attacked, and while a battle still took place. Years of weekly self-defense training kicked in, and her body moved on instinct. She rounded on the men coming her way and released the cattle prod’s fury. One went down, seizing and urinating his pants. The second came after her with a knee to her stomach, but she’d practiced that scenario many times. She deflected with a window-washer swipe, stepped in and went for his soft spots—punch to the throat, kick to the junk, fingers to the eyes and then… and then…

She looked around. Where was the smoke coming from?

White cloud surrounded her, creating a screen that blocked her vision. She stilled. With her sight compromised, the sounds grew louder, echoing around her. Men grunting, hitting, fighting and echoing off the walls. A man screamed. Oh God. That was closer than she thought.

Lilo’s heart rate picked up, and her nerves sparked, wanting to breathe faster, but she choked. She covered her mouth with her sleeve. The chemicals made her eyes water.

Someone yanked her. She tumbled to the side, tripped, and fell into powerful leather clad arms. Horror seized her as she looked into the face of one of the Deadly Seven.

Blue face mask.

She’d seen two of them fighting. Two Greeds. One good, one evil. Which one was this?

Holy mother of mercy.

With barely time to register blue stern eyes, she was hauled over a shoulder and moving, bouncing through the smoke at an alarmingly fast pace.

“Let me go!” She thumped him on his back as they burst out of the warehouse and into the alley.

He kept jogging.

But there was no way she’d go down without a fight. She still had her cattle prod and shoved it into his leg, aiming for behind his knee. A buzzing sound exploded. He staggered, let loose a strangled growl that set her hairs on edge, but didn’t let go.

He kept jogging.

She screamed and thumped as they bounced along. She thrashed and writhed. She went for his thigh again, but the prod whipped out of her hand and skittered to the floor. It was as though someone had pulled it on a string. No! She could cry. It got smaller as the distance grew between them.

That was her last weapon.

Her last line of defense.

No, that wasn’t entirely true, she still had her fists. She twisted to use them on him, aiming for the head.

“Stop,” he growled, but his voice was wrong, all distorted and computerized.

“I’ll stop when you let me go.” Her punches glanced off his hard back, butt and thighs. What the hell was this guy made of, granite? She was more likely to break her fists than him.

But she wouldn’t give up.

She tried to pinch. Surely there had to be some soft skin somewhere.

Nope.

Another guttural growl, a grunt, and then they shouldered through a door and into a dark, dank smelling room.

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