Liberate: Starship Renegades, #2 by S.J. Bryant

Author:S.J. Bryant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saffron Bryant
Published: 2019-10-13T08:20:38+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Piper let out a sharp scream and dived to Ray's limp body. She tugged at his thick arm, rolling him off of the agent, revealing the burnt and bloody mess that was his stomach. Wisps of smoke rose from his scorched innards and a trail of blood connected him to the dead agent, whose eyes stared fixedly at the ceiling. Piper pressed her hands against Ray's stomach, as if to hold his organs in, but she was far too late.

Kari's heart ached for her sister as she dashed across the room and wrapped her arms around Piper's shoulders. Kari tried to pull Piper away from the bodies but she refused, instead tearing from Kari's arms and shaking Ray.

"Ray! Ray! Come on."

"Piper, he's gone," Kari said.

"No! He can't. You don't understand. He's strong. He'll be okay…"

Kari rested her hand on Piper's back. Piper's cries descended into sobs, shoulders quaking. Out of the corner of her eye, Kari watched Wren let the second agent fall to the floor with a solid thud and then wipe her knife clean on his jacket.

The smell of burning flesh and blood filled the room, making it feel as though the walls were pressing in and would crush them all at any moment.

Kari's gaze fell to the dead agent's wrist. The flashing red light was gone.

Kari's stomach clenched—the life sensors. She flew to her feet and spun toward the door, expecting agents with huge guns to burst into the room at any moment.

"They'll be coming," Ryker said. "Bloody hell, now we've done it."

Kari's mind was like a blank slate, refusing to suggest even the vaguest of ideas to get them out of this mess.

"We could try running," Wren said.

"Remember how they wrecked our door?" Kari said. "By the time we get that back into shape they'll have shot us all."

"We build a barricade," Ryker said. "Make a stand here. We might be able to stop them, especially if they're trying not to kill Piper and…"

Piper's wails grew louder, like a banshee through some haunted wreckage.

"We'd never hold them off," Kari said, wishing that Piper would stop crying. How could she concentrate when it was as if Piper's heart was breaking right in front of her?

"I've got this," Atticus said.

His low voice cut through Piper's wailing and the ragged breathing of the others.

Kari spun on him. "What?"

"I've got this."

She tried to stop him but he was already running for the door. He held the metal device he'd been fiddling with all day close to his chest.

"Atticus." Kari jogged after him, reluctant to leave Piper but having no choice.

Atticus' thin legs pounded the ground as he rounded the corner and sprinted for the broken door which opened to the Imperium vessel.

Kari caught up to him as he reached the door, just in time to see him lob the metal ball through the opening.

A second later, a deep boom shook the other ship and a hot blast of air burst through the broken door. It knocked Atticus against the opposite wall and a hail of wreckage and sharp pieces of metal slammed into him.

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