We Are Mayhem_A Black Star Renegades Novel by Michael Moreci

Author:Michael Moreci [Moreci, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1250117852
Amazon: B07FGW39F9
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2019-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

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“We have to break her out,” Kira said. She’d stood up among Kay’s gathered audience of soldiers, instigators and outlaws alike, and could feel their skeptical, even scornful, eyes on her. There was nothing but silence hanging in the air, and an uncomfortable one at that. Kira looked over at Kay, who was cupping his mouth in his hand. He bore the expression of a man who’d heard something that he wished he hadn’t.

“Am I the only one who was paying attention?” Kira asked, her voice conveying no shortage of disgust at the impassive audience surrounding her. “The people holding her captive are closing in; she doesn’t have much time.”

“We heard the message,” said a squat soldier with a flat nose and eyebrows that formed a thick black slash across his forehead. He stretched his body up as far as it could reach so Kira could see him among the crowd. “And we heard Akima give clear orders: We need to get to our man on the inside and snatch whatever information Akima has to offer, and we have to do it tonight. ‘No matter what it takes,’ she said. I don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty clear to me.”

“Are you going to completely skip over the part where she suspects she’s been discovered?” Kira snarled, trying her best to shove aside the image of her mother, whom she hadn’t seen in over ten years, shaking as she implored her loyalists to follow orders while casually informing them she was about to be killed. She was right there in front of Kira not five minutes earlier, a blurry holographic image that was realer than anything Kira had been able to project in her head over the past decade. Real enough for her to see with her own two eyes; almost real enough for her to touch. Kira had to stifle the avalanche of emotion that threatened to overwhelm her, threatened to paralyze her. She hadn’t come all this way, hadn’t fought so hard so some grunt with a little bit of nerve could diminish her mother’s urgency. She wouldn’t let the cowardice that hid behind the call of duty have its day. “That is your commander,” Kira continued, “and where I’m from—”

“You’re from here; we know who you are, Kira Sen,” the soldier groaned. “Awfully strange that you come back home and immediately our mission is strangely sabotaged. And now, you want to draw out our troops and defy your mom’s orders. Seems like an unlikely coincidence, these things happening all at once.”

“That’s enough, Private Straker,” Kay ordered from the head of the briefing room. He was standing right where Kira’s mother—or at least the projection of her mother—had been standing just moments before.

“Just speaking my mind, sir,” Straker said with a condescending smile. “But since I have your attention, can you remind me what the chain of command is? Do we take orders from you, or from this—”

Kira was so focused on the raw fury

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