The Threat of the Hunt: the Dangerous Ones: Untamed Series, #7 by Madeline Dyer

Author:Madeline Dyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dystopian, fantasy, new adult, young adult, survival, action and adventure
Publisher: Ineja Press
Published: 2022-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SEVEN

The next morning, we move with the first of the light.

I feel better this time around, on the run. The Enhanced can’t be tracking me. Kazem is here. And Red is dead.

This is better, this time, but I think of what Shweta said—how many different versions of this she’s lived through. How many more are still to come—if that’s how it’s still working, with me too now?

“You don’t look so good,” Kazem says. He grips my hand tightly, like he’s ready to propel me along again. With his other hand, he pushes his blue-streaks of hair from his eyes.

I try to speak, but there’s a weight in my chest that makes it difficult. The more I walk, the sicker I feel. My pace is lagging, and there’s pain in my upper back. I feel weak—weak. Something I’ve never been in my entire life. In fact, I’ve despised those who were weak. I always judged Clive for being slow, and that makes me feel bad. Strange. Because I’m weaker than Clive now.

I’m useless.

I’m a liability.

No. I can’t be!

“I’m fine,” I bite out, putting way too much energy into getting those two words loud enough. Gods, why is even speaking so hard?

“I think you need to rest,” Kazem says, bringing my hand up to his mouth. Lightly, he kisses the back of it—an action that always makes me smile—except it doesn’t this time. Because I am worrying.

“No. I’m fine.” I shake my head at him hard. “I really am.”

But of course Kazem knows I’m not. We’re connected, and I see the worry in his eyes. How it’s weighing him down.

I look away, focus on the others. They’re way ahead of us now, thanks to my slow pace. Maggot’s walking the fastest, and I think about how I should be at her side, as her second-in-command. Instead, Celena is there. Her hair is tied up with a purple ribbon and her ponytail swishes with every step.

I try to speed up. Pain squeezes through my chest.

“I can carry you,” Kazem says.

I shake my head, patches of thick darkness hovering in front of me. I’m not being carried again—the memory of Evor carrying me last time is still a hazy recollection—and I don’t want Kazem to see me being weak.

I force myself to go faster and faster. Kazem matches my pace with ease, and I try to pretend that I’m not sweating bucket loads. That there isn’t a thick humming sound in my ears, that my breaths aren’t too fast and too ragged. That my legs don’t feel like stone.

But I catch up with the others.

Maggot casts a look over her shoulder at me. “We we’re just sayin’ we need to get a vehicle, move much faster. We ain’t gonna get far like this.”

Because of me.

I swallow hard.

“And we have nothing,” Maggot says. “Just Evor’s medicine bag. We’re going to need to raid too. We need food.”

“And salt,” Evor says. “That will help Kacey with the fast heart rate.”

“It will?” I stare at him.

Celena mouths something at me that I suspect is ‘loser’.

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