Coletti Warlords: Vexing Voss by Gail Koger Read Free Book Online

might be a really good idea if I drive.”
    “I am the Overlord’s Battle Commander. There is not a machine I cannot operate.”
    “Okey dokey, then.” I quickly fastened my seat belt. This should be fun.
    He studied the gearshift for a moment, put the truck in reverse, and gunned it.
    Bam! The rear bumper slammed into the passenger side of my car, smashing the door in.
    “Oh my God! Look what you did to my car.”
    “You have no further need of it,” Voss replied callously and put the truck into drive, plowing over a dead bush.
    “Oh hell no, you are not getting off that easy. You’re going to buy me a new car, buster.”
    Voss shot me an annoyed look. “Once we have found the traitors, we are leaving Earth.”
    The bastard expects me to give up everything? “This is my home.”
    “You are my mate, and it is your duty to follow me.”
    “Even into battle?”
    “A tiny female cannot defeat a warrior. “
    “Really? I took you, Jaylan, and your goons down.”
    “It won’t happen again.
    My eyes widened in horror. He wasn’t slowing down for the red light. “Red light!”
    “I see it.”
    I let out a shriek as he sailed through the intersection, barely missing an old lady in an old battered van. “Red means stop!”
    “I do not obey your laws,” the big guy growled.
    “I’m not dying in a car accident because you’re a pigheaded moron.” To my dismay, I felt a tear roll down my cheek. I had been in my mother’s mind when she died. I couldn’t shut out the memory of her agony.
    Voss shifted through my memories, and the pain faded. “Her death will be avenged.”
    “Damn right it will, snookums.” Fire ants suddenly crawled across my mind. My psychic abilities made me Earth’s first line of defense against the alien invaders. A very useful talent. Opening my Siren senses, I reached out, searching for the Tai-Kok raiders. The monsters were close. Too close.
    “How many do you sense?”
    “Not many. It’s a small raiding party.” I cocked my head. Well, that’s weird. “Why would the Tai-Kok have a Coletti with them?”
    The Overlord’s Battle Commander’s presence filled my mind. “Show me.”
    I instinctively obeyed.
    “Malik,” Voss hissed.
    “Sweet Jesus! Malik, the Overlord’s traitorous son?”
    “Yes.” Voss severed our link. Ignoring the oncoming traffic, he whipped the truck across three lanes of traffic and brought it to an abrupt stop.
    “What’s wrong?”
    “I’ll be back,” he growled and teleported.
    What? Did he think he was the Terminator? Okay, he kind of was, but if he thought he could pull a vanishing act without any kind of explanation he was sadly mistaken. I scooted into the driver’s seat and headed for the Latin King’s Family Farm. El Jefe waited.

Chapter Five
    The closer I got to the Latin King’s Family Farm, the stronger the burning sensation in my head grew. The meeting was definitely going down there. Big surprise. Malik was in cahoots with the Tai-Kok and the traitors.
    Ahead of me, a battered sign with a large egg on it proclaimed LATIN KING’S FAMILY FARM THREE MILES. I turned onto the dirt road.
    Lifeless trees from a long-abandoned orange grove rose like blackened specters around me. Ten years of war with the Tai-Kok and Rodan raiders had pretty much destroyed our economy. Arizona’s once-flourishing orange groves were being slowly reclaimed by the desert.
    “Go back to the base and wait for me,” Voss commanded. His tone was that of a predator hot on the trail of his prey.
    That lying sack of shit was going after the traitors without me. “You promised we would hunt them together.”
    The Battle Commander’s anger rolled across my mind. “I hunt a viciously cunning warlord, not weak humans. You will immediately leave the battle area.”
    In my best timid-mouse voice, I replied, “As my lord commands.”
    “Zoey,” Voss growled in warning.
    “Yes, poopsie?”
    “It is my duty to protect you.”
    “You chose me because I’m a