Luca’s head snaps up. “So that’s it, then, right? We get her out of here, now? Lock her away in a bunker somewhere until we blow that entire nation to pieces?”“As tempting as that sounds,” dad murmurs, pressing a kiss to my hair, “we can’t risk it. Any individual truck leaving the battlefield now w
When Jackson, Luca and I find our spots, Jackson passes me a pair of binoculars from around his neck. “Check it out,” he murmurs.I frown up at him and then do as I’m told, looking through the lenses, observing the cliff’s edge in front of me where the Atalaxians have entrenched – a spot which they’
I watch with a great deal of awe as the assault begins.Planes and helicopters fly from some airfield behind us and over our heads, moving fast for the Atalaxian cliff. As I watch the storm clouds above the cliff begin to retreat, making space for the planes. The Atalaxian front seems almost to stee
“Troops!” Rafe barks out, clearly seeing what I’m seeing – what we all are. “Ready!”“I –“ I stutter, anxiety and adrenaline starting to race through me as my eyes focus properly on the two huge helicopters heading directly for us. “I thought we weren’t supposed to see action –““We weren’t,” Jackso
“Ari,” Jesse whispers, equally awed, starting to take his fingers away.“No,” I growl, leaning back, wanting to maintain contact. “Look.”I lift my chin upwards to the sky, where through the rising smoke we can see more helicopters coming. Four of them.Rafe glances at me and then touches the radio
My wolf instantly pounces on the small part of me that wonders if that makes me a monster, snarling her fury at the thought.And she is right –The Atalaxians, they started this war twenty years ago, they began their attack just when my father took his throne because they knew we were already weak.
Jackson lets out a sharp, impatient snarl, and Jesse laughs, giving me a little shove towards him. “All right, all right, I’m sorry, take him.”I stumble forward a step into Jackson’s arms, where I’m wrapped up tight. “You’re being very indiscreet, you know,” I murmur, wrapping my arms as far as the
Jackson has to pull me back into my seat when I try to jump up before the truck even stops. I scowl at him but he just smirks at me.As soon as the truck pulls to a stop, though, he lets me go and I move swiftly for the back. Something in the back of my mind registers all of the other Cadets likewis