When something goes bump in the night, Del bumps back. |
Angels should be a human’s
worst nightmare. Del didn’t think there was anything worse than angels, or
their fallen kin, demons. She and her partner Marrin helped to keep the world
safe from the horrors of escaped demons for generations. But when Del’s
daughter is kidnapped by a shadowy group, Del will find that the world is even
more dangerous than she suspected.
There are worse things than
angels and demons.
Excerpt
The doors slid back exactly as they were supposed to,
and Del pointed both her SIGs through the opening. She knew it was wrong. Two
hands on one gun with a straight-thumbs hold was the correct way to give proper
support to aim and shoot quickly and consistently. Hollywood liked to show
action heroes shooting from the hip, or blasting away without aiming and taking
down a room full of bad guys, whose best response was to fire impotently at the
ceiling or comically into other bad guys. It was all so much useless eye candy.
A gun in each hand gave support to neither and made it impossible to sight.
She’d need independent use of each of her eyes, like a chameleon, to train the
guns on different targets at the same time.
Del knew it was wrong, but it looked damned impressive
from the receiving end.
“Hold your fire!” a voice commanded from outside the
elevator. “Hold your fire!”
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Del wasn’t certain if the order was for her, the two
ranks of Ljosalfar soldiers in their body armor who surrounded the elevator, or
both. Either way, holes weren’t being punched into her favorite skin and that was
a good thing. She might still die, riddled with bullets and spitting blood, but
not yet. Not yet.
She unwrapped and wrapped her fingers on her SIGs, and
smiled.
“Hello boys,” Del said. “Who wants some?”
“Hold your fire!” Alfred Waru said again.
“Alfred, you cunning bastard,” Del purred. “Come on in
and give me a hug. I’ve solved almost all your problems. There’s only one
left.”
“I’d rather you put down your weapons,” Alfred
replied. Del homed in on his voice from behind the second rank of soldiers, but
couldn’t make him out through all the helmets. “We’ve locked the elevator. The
doors won’t close, and the car won’t move. Let’s talk about this.”
“Talk about what?” Del said and laughed. “How you lied
to your people? How you betrayed and
murdered your own? How you’ve doomed
them through your schemes and plots?”
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