Red Night ((Book 1) Timewalker Chronicles) by Callahan Michele

Author:Callahan, Michele [Callahan, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Michele Callahan
Published: 2011-05-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Alexa knew Luke would disapprove. She wasn’t in the mood to argue with him about it so she sat across from him inside the car with her mouth shut and counted the minutes. This was her mission. Her only reason for existence. If that meant she had six-inch knives strapped to both thighs and her 9mm handgun on her ankle, so be it. If she had to shoot a few people at the party to make sure no one walked out of there infected with M-6, then, so help her God, she was going to do it.

That included herself and Luke. She’d never been much for praying, but if she were forced to kill a man in cold blood to save the world, and then rot in prison on this planet for the rest of her life, she was going to need all the help she could get when it was time to pull the trigger.

The car stopped and their driver opened the door for her. As much as she hated herself for it, she fled the confined space and Luke’s knowing gaze like a panicked rabbit would flee a fox.

“You look beautiful.” Luke stepped out of the rented limousine behind her onto the sidewalk in front of the Frost Bank Tower and lightly caressed her arm. He looked drop-dead gorgeous in his tuxedo. No pun intended. “The dress is perfect.”

“Thank you.” What was the use in playing coy? She knew she looked good. But last time she’d checked, being beautiful wouldn’t help her stop a psycho.

What she needed was to stay calm, centered. Beneath this killer dress was her 9mm Lady Remington. Stuffed inside a matching clutch she had several rounds of ammunition. Hiding a large number of bullets had posed a problem so she’d left most of them behind. Standing there yesterday afternoon, listening to the pawnshop salesman sell his wares to the visible customers, she’d concluded that she couldn’t kill that many people anyway. She might be forced to hold them all prisoner in quarantine and watch them die of Red Death, but she couldn’t shoot innocent victims in cold blood. Even though a shot through the heart would be a more merciful ending.

No. She was just going to have to stop Matthew Kline before he had a chance to infect them all at the party. Putting a bullet into his fanatical skull would be less of a moral challenge.

Looking good when she put him out of his misery was just an added little bonus. She guessed she just had a little too much of her mother in her. And the testosterone of nine men in the house to contend with growing up. Dressing up was always fun.

She’d swept her hair up into a sexy chignon that exposed her long neck and made her hope Luke would find an excuse to kiss the sensitive skin there. The dress was the same pale blue as her eyes, like an arctic glacier, and shimmered when she moved. The layered material was so soft, it felt like rose petals beneath her fingertips.

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