Whisper & Fury: Eydulan Series Book 1 Read Online Free Page B

I can’t even get close to him.”
    Whisper says, “I just finished your left arm, now all I have to get is your right. I need like five more minutes.”
    Kat speaks softly, “Way to go Whisper, and I can try.”
    “Well I can’t have my meatbag blow up with me attached now can I.”
    “No I guess you can’t.” Kat sees Gravan’s head peek around the corner, and her heart skips a beat.
    His blue eyes wash over her like a wave cresting on the shore. She takes an extended looks of his face. Strong jaw, with a thin beard at the edges, and messy black hair. She watches his eyes look up and down her, exchanging glances.
    He says, tilting his head. “How’s your leg holding up?”
    She isn’t quite sure how to respond. He was the one that just shot her, which was something she needed to remember. Trying to push the inviting hunky-ness he was projecting. “It’s fine I guess. It only got grazed by a shotgun blaster at short range.” She emphasizes the last couple of words, unable to hold back her anger.
    “Right. Sorry.” His eyes fixate on her wound for a short time, and then he turns back around the corner.
    “Sorry? I’m pretty sure you did that on purpose.”
    “I did, and I hit where I was aiming too. It’s just you seem to have hit the bomb that was placed on my heart. I’m not sure if it’s disabled or about to blow, but either way I’m free.”
    “Wait, what!?”
    “You had better get out of here, and fast. The pressure it was putting on my chest is gone, which can only mean one thing.” Gravan tosses the shotgun around the corner. It scrapes and bounces along. “I don’t have any other weapons, and I know that it’s a very trust worthy statement since I just shot you. Just hurry, I definitely don’t want to kill you if I’m not forced to anymore. Plus I’ve lost too much blood anyway, and once my heart stops. Boom.”
    “Whisper what is he talking about?”
    Whisper sighs, “I am in the middle of something if you don’t remember.”
    Kat rolls her eyes, “Yes, I remember, but can you check him out too?”
    “What!? How am I supposed to do that?”
    “We shot him right? So that means your nanites are inside him, right? Can you access them?”
    “OH! Well, I’ve never thought of that before. Let me try it.”
    Gravan grunts in pain, “Katrice, please. Get out of here, General Ajax wouldn’t want you to die here.”
    There is a name that she hadn’t heard in years, but how did this guy know his connection to her. She was supposed to go in this deep cover as herself. It had to be real, with no false ID or background. Mallory was too important a target to tip off. So why would General Ajax send in another operative, did something happen, or did he believe that she was compromised.
    “What is that supposed to mean?”
    “I know you killed his nephew, under his orders. He placed me here because of my past, because I have a hatred that’s motivating. The last communication from you was over three years ago, right when you started having relations with Ryker.”
    Kat takes in a deep breath, exhaling slowly. If she was a man, there might have been another way, but Mallory didn’t bring women into his inner circle. She had to earn her way into his good graces, be in his thoughts before he even started to look her way as a possible companion. A man like Gravan wouldn’t know how that feels.
    She tries to keep her words even, “It was the only way to get any closer to him than just being the head of security. There wasn’t anything on him at all from where I was, so I had to get closer. From there I was just as watched as he was, and couldn’t send off a message even if I wanted to. I had gotten the suspicion that he was on to me in one way or the other when he sent me on that mission to ‘liberate’ the plans for the two AI’s and the ship.”
    “Then why did you go?”
    “That would be the million credit question, wouldn’t it. I have no frigging clue why I went along with it.