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. What kind of help? Ben shifted the flashlight under his gun arm, freeing up his hand todelve into his pants pocket. I need to know what Bane and the Paladinsknow about these. He tossed a blue stone about the size of a largemarble into her lap. Did he ever mention anything about them to you?Or maybe that Other you ve been spreading your legs for? 230 He had been watching them! The idea made her sick and furious.Her temper took control of her mouth. Jealous, Ben? I know Barak s nothuman, but he s all man, I can assure you. Shut up, bitch! The gun moved closer to her face. Make me! She regretted the words the second they left her mouth.With hishands full, he had to content himself with kicking at her.His foot caughtthe side of her knee with enough force to render her breathless withshards of pain.Despite the new addition to her collection of injuries, shetook pride in immediately sitting back up, meeting him glare for glare.She swallowed her pain and snarled, You ll die for this, you know.You ll be lucky if Penn leaves enough of you for the coroner to mop upwith a sponge.And it won t be an easy death.I m thinking it may takehours or even days.Unless, of course, Barak finds out what you ve done.Then there s not a place on Earth or in his world that will keep youfrom choking on your own blood as he whittles you to pieces.I ve seenhim kill.It wasn t pretty, and his victims died begging for their lives. That was a lie.The speed of Barak s blade hadn t allowed time forconversation.Ben s foot swung back for another kick. And to think I ordered mytwo associates to leave you unharmed.Maybe I should call them back infor a little playtime before I kill you.Personally, I wouldn t want theleavings of an Other.Who knows what kind of contamination he s leftbehind? He jerked his head in the direction of the other two men. But Isuspect they aren t quite so fastidious. Her muscles clenched in new fear.The threat of rape had been in theback of her mind since they d manhandled her out of her kitchen and intothe back of their van.But some of that fear had faded as the hours hadticked by with her captors all but ignoring her.Had they really only beenwaiting for Ben s approval before&No! She wouldn t let him panic her with his threats! They mightcontrol her fate, but she controlled how she reacted to it.Jerking her chinup, she met Ben s gaze head-on.He stumbled back a step, rewarding herefforts.She smiled. Oh, yeah, Barak and Penn are going to have fun withyou.Maybe they ll have Trahern with them, too.They say he s mellowed231 some lately, but I wouldn t count on it if I were you.In fact, I d save oneof those bullets to blow your own brains out before any of them getwithin sword range of you. Ben glanced back over his shoulder, as if he could already feel thePaladins breathing down his neck.Lacey hadn t known that fear had asmell, but Ben Jackson was ripe with it.She chewed on her lower lip,trying to decide what to say or do next.Baiting him might not be thesmartest tactic to use, but her pride wouldn t let her cower. Seriously, Ben, she said, using his name as a reminder that shewasn t just a random person but someone he knew and worked with. There s no reason to panic.We can work something out if we try. He considered her offer for all of two seconds before rejecting it. You and that jackass brother of yours wouldn t spit on me if I were onfire, but I m holding all the cards this time.He will help me find out whatI need to know or you ll die. Then he tilted his head to one side. Actually you ll die anyway, buthe won t know that until it s too late. Then he walked away, leaving heralone in the dark. He stopped moving. Barak studied the small screen for anotherminute or two before setting it aside. His car must be a short distanceahead. Penn steered their car over to the shoulder of the narrow gravel roadand stopped. It would be better to go on foot from here.We can t riskhim seeing the car and panicking. Barak nodded as he reached for the door handle.He had a badfeeling about this.Ben Jackson was a weak man, which meant he wasmore likely to panic and lash out.If they cornered him at the wrongmoment, Lacey would die.Penn walked around to the front of the car and waited for Barak tojoin him.He checked his guns and the slide of his sword in its scabbard. Sure you don t want a gun? Barak shook his head. I m better with my blades. 232 As they started up the road, keeping just inside the tree line, a rollingsurge of energy sent Barak stumbling to his knees.He grabbed onto thetrunk of a small fir and held on for dear life.Penn, who was oblivious tothe power moving through the rocks, turned and frowned at Barak. Quit dicking around.We don t have time for this. Barak managed to regain his footing on the second try. It s not me.It s the mountain.Same thing happened the other day when Lacey and Iwere out here.We ve got thirty minutes, forty-five tops before thingsreally start rocking and rolling. He put his hand in direct contact with a stone.With luck he might beable to draw off some of the power building up below their feet, releasingthe strain before it reached critical level.If it worked, he could buy themanother handful of precious minutes.But it was too late.He could feel rock grating on rock, each pushingand shoving in opposite directions.Right now, it hadn t built up enoughforce to break free, but it would, and then no one would be safe. We need to run.There is no time for caution, Barak told Penn. It s been a while since I ve been up here, but if I remembercorrectly, there are two entrances to the tunnels.One is directly ahead.The other about a quarter of a mile that way. Penn nodded to the east.Barak picked up his sword and fell in beside Penn as together theyloped up the road with little regard for secrecy [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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. What kind of help? Ben shifted the flashlight under his gun arm, freeing up his hand todelve into his pants pocket. I need to know what Bane and the Paladinsknow about these. He tossed a blue stone about the size of a largemarble into her lap. Did he ever mention anything about them to you?Or maybe that Other you ve been spreading your legs for? 230 He had been watching them! The idea made her sick and furious.Her temper took control of her mouth. Jealous, Ben? I know Barak s nothuman, but he s all man, I can assure you. Shut up, bitch! The gun moved closer to her face. Make me! She regretted the words the second they left her mouth.With hishands full, he had to content himself with kicking at her.His foot caughtthe side of her knee with enough force to render her breathless withshards of pain.Despite the new addition to her collection of injuries, shetook pride in immediately sitting back up, meeting him glare for glare.She swallowed her pain and snarled, You ll die for this, you know.You ll be lucky if Penn leaves enough of you for the coroner to mop upwith a sponge.And it won t be an easy death.I m thinking it may takehours or even days.Unless, of course, Barak finds out what you ve done.Then there s not a place on Earth or in his world that will keep youfrom choking on your own blood as he whittles you to pieces.I ve seenhim kill.It wasn t pretty, and his victims died begging for their lives. That was a lie.The speed of Barak s blade hadn t allowed time forconversation.Ben s foot swung back for another kick. And to think I ordered mytwo associates to leave you unharmed.Maybe I should call them back infor a little playtime before I kill you.Personally, I wouldn t want theleavings of an Other.Who knows what kind of contamination he s leftbehind? He jerked his head in the direction of the other two men. But Isuspect they aren t quite so fastidious. Her muscles clenched in new fear.The threat of rape had been in theback of her mind since they d manhandled her out of her kitchen and intothe back of their van.But some of that fear had faded as the hours hadticked by with her captors all but ignoring her.Had they really only beenwaiting for Ben s approval before&No! She wouldn t let him panic her with his threats! They mightcontrol her fate, but she controlled how she reacted to it.Jerking her chinup, she met Ben s gaze head-on.He stumbled back a step, rewarding herefforts.She smiled. Oh, yeah, Barak and Penn are going to have fun withyou.Maybe they ll have Trahern with them, too.They say he s mellowed231 some lately, but I wouldn t count on it if I were you.In fact, I d save oneof those bullets to blow your own brains out before any of them getwithin sword range of you. Ben glanced back over his shoulder, as if he could already feel thePaladins breathing down his neck.Lacey hadn t known that fear had asmell, but Ben Jackson was ripe with it.She chewed on her lower lip,trying to decide what to say or do next.Baiting him might not be thesmartest tactic to use, but her pride wouldn t let her cower. Seriously, Ben, she said, using his name as a reminder that shewasn t just a random person but someone he knew and worked with. There s no reason to panic.We can work something out if we try. He considered her offer for all of two seconds before rejecting it. You and that jackass brother of yours wouldn t spit on me if I were onfire, but I m holding all the cards this time.He will help me find out whatI need to know or you ll die. Then he tilted his head to one side. Actually you ll die anyway, buthe won t know that until it s too late. Then he walked away, leaving heralone in the dark. He stopped moving. Barak studied the small screen for anotherminute or two before setting it aside. His car must be a short distanceahead. Penn steered their car over to the shoulder of the narrow gravel roadand stopped. It would be better to go on foot from here.We can t riskhim seeing the car and panicking. Barak nodded as he reached for the door handle.He had a badfeeling about this.Ben Jackson was a weak man, which meant he wasmore likely to panic and lash out.If they cornered him at the wrongmoment, Lacey would die.Penn walked around to the front of the car and waited for Barak tojoin him.He checked his guns and the slide of his sword in its scabbard. Sure you don t want a gun? Barak shook his head. I m better with my blades. 232 As they started up the road, keeping just inside the tree line, a rollingsurge of energy sent Barak stumbling to his knees.He grabbed onto thetrunk of a small fir and held on for dear life.Penn, who was oblivious tothe power moving through the rocks, turned and frowned at Barak. Quit dicking around.We don t have time for this. Barak managed to regain his footing on the second try. It s not me.It s the mountain.Same thing happened the other day when Lacey and Iwere out here.We ve got thirty minutes, forty-five tops before thingsreally start rocking and rolling. He put his hand in direct contact with a stone.With luck he might beable to draw off some of the power building up below their feet, releasingthe strain before it reached critical level.If it worked, he could buy themanother handful of precious minutes.But it was too late.He could feel rock grating on rock, each pushingand shoving in opposite directions.Right now, it hadn t built up enoughforce to break free, but it would, and then no one would be safe. We need to run.There is no time for caution, Barak told Penn. It s been a while since I ve been up here, but if I remembercorrectly, there are two entrances to the tunnels.One is directly ahead.The other about a quarter of a mile that way. Penn nodded to the east.Barak picked up his sword and fell in beside Penn as together theyloped up the road with little regard for secrecy [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]