Colliding Worlds Trilogy 01 - Collision by Berinn Rae Read Free Book Online Page A

Jax, and shook her head while he convulsed on the ground. “That’s what you get for bugging me.” She then pulled out a small cylinder that looked like a mini lipstick tube. Except this stuff was way cooler. Colorless, odorless, and über potent. She took off the cap and ran it across his neck the moment his hand grabbed her calf. Instantly, his grip relaxed, and his eyes fell shut. The guy would be out for hours.
    She pulled the wires from his chest, retracted them into the Taser, and slid the weapon back into her waistband. Then, she felt around his neck for a transmitter and realized it was an all-in-one earpiece. She placed it on top of the log and crushed it with her heel.
    “Hey.” A voice startled her from behind. She swung out, and he ducked. “Nice one.” Legian sounded more pleased than pissed that she tried to clothesline him.
    She settled back down on the log and felt a bump the size of Texas forming on her shin. At least her leg wasn’t broken. Jax didn’t need to know that she’d exaggerated slightly. She pulled out her black bandana with pink skulls and wiped the sweat from her face, and then she looked up at Legian. “Where’d you go?”
    “Leading the rest off trail. I hijacked this one’s transmissions and tricked the others into thinking I was him. Should buy us extra time before they figure it out.”
    “So that’s why Jax couldn’t get a hold of them.”
    “This is Jax?”
    Sienna nodded down at the guy lying on the ground. He stalked toward the fallen soldier, and she hoped he wasn’t going to do what she thought he might do.
    “I may still be bugged,” she blurted out in an attempt to distract him.
    Legian stopped, looked at her, at the soldier, then back at her. Then he held out a small button. It looked like a mini Easy Button. Ironically, the thing was even red. “I blocked the signal.”
    “Awesome,” was all she could say. After all, when it came to that sort of thing, Legian was pretty much Mission: Impossible . Then she stopped cold. “So I couldn’t be tracked …”
    “Once I activated the blocker,” he finished for her.
    She stared at him for a moment, and then shoved him. Or, at least tried to shove him. The big oaf didn’t move an inch. Not even for charity’s sake. “You could’ve done that the moment I left the bar.”
    “I wanted to know if they planted tracers on you.”
    “I think the first tracer you found gave it away,” she replied drily.
    “Yes, but I wanted to understand how they operate.”
    “And now you know?” she asked with her hands on her hips.
    “I know more. Your race is better trained than I anticipated.” She glared, and he sighed before speaking again. “I would never have done it if I felt you were at risk. You know that, yes?”
    She stood for a moment before relaxing. “I know,” she whispered.
    He smiled and held out a hand. “Let’s go.”
    “Uh, Legian?”
    “What?”
    She didn’t want to ask, but she had to. “What do we do with Jax?”
    “Leave him.”
    She was still pissed at the betrayal, but leaving the soldier was flat out wrong. “We can’t leave him here. What if they don’t find him? What if he gets bit by a rattlesnake or eaten by a bear?”
    “The bears in this area are small. They could only gnaw on him.”
    “Like that’s any better.”
    “Not my problem.”
    “Well, it’s mine. I knocked him out. He’s not part of a catch-and-release program.”
    “He’ll slow us down. You can’t afford to be soft, Sienna. He wouldn’t show the same mercy to you.”
    Legian wouldn’t back down. Sienna wouldn’t back down. And so the battle of the wills began. Not that he was always hard-headed. Even though he could be a vicious tiger around everyone else, when he was alone with her, he usually morphed into a fuzzy kitten. Not that she could blame him. Whenever she hurt his feelings, she felt like a complete shit. She figured it had to have something to do with the whole tahren bond. She’d rather