Jackson glares hard into my eyes, I think hating me a little bit right now for not being easy and simple and falling in line with his plans to be overprotective.“You know I’m right, Jackson. That we have a better chance of winning with you down there instead of up here.”He sighs sharply through hi
I don’t have any words in response, completely overwhelmed as I am at the incredible compliment Jackson just gave me, at the impossible way that he sees me and how incredibly much he loves me. So I just stare at Jackson, and open my side of our bond completely, letting him feel all the love and prid
“We don’t know which is which,” Rafe says into my ear, “though obviously knowing which one belongs to Wright is going to be useful. Both teams are going to be sending out runners – scouts – trying to get the lay of the land. Wright will probably use Luca for that. So, if you see Luca coming from the
I take a moment to memorize the location of the enemy soldiers before I set my binoculars aside, pulling my gun over to me. When I put myself in position to fire and again look down the scope, I find the soldiers quickly, moving down the ravine towards the river, not bothering to try to be sneaky an
“Numbers are…fucking off.” Rafe growls. “And not a single person from Wright and Blythe’s team has made an appearance, except those few across the river that the other team took out.”“What are you thinking?” Jacks murmurs.“I think they’re trying to lure us forward,” Rafe sighs. “And that if we don
I do my best to keep my breaths quiet and even as two, then three more enemy soldiers move out onto my plateau. I peer at their faces through the leaves of the bushes in which I’m hiding, trying to see if one of them is Wright, if one of their eyes is lit with the violence I saw in him that day – th
But she turns to me, and tilts her head to the side, curious.My whole body starts to shake as I gasp in a desperate breath and clutch my stupid paintball rifle to my chest, scared and confused and frantic to go back home. Because I have absolutely no idea where I am, or how I got here, or what’s ha
“Um,” I say, looking up at him and tucking a strand of my hair back behind my ears. “I think so? I think I killed them…all…”“He did,” Heggardy says, bitter, and Jackson snaps his head to him. “That was the end of my team. How the fuck did he do that?”“Do what?” Jackson asks.“How did he hide like