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

undergo death by a thousand cuts than see Legian hurt.
    She could feel him already wavering when it hit her. Win-win. She snapped her fingers. “Leverage! Once Jax wakes, we question him — which does not mean torture, by the way — to find out how much the military already knows. They’re obviously onto you guys a whole lot more than we thought. And we can prove to him that we’re on the same side. It’s perfect, really. If we play our cards right, he’s our perfect in.”
    “In?”
    “As in a trigger to start building an alliance with the U.S. leaders. We help him get back to his unit. He’s got to have connections, and those connections can connect us with someone who can get us on the right track toward a partnership. An American-Sephian coalition.”
    It had been something that nagged the back of her mind since she moved to the base. The Sephians came here without any prior contact. That alone looked suspicious. If they tried to introduce themselves to the President or some senator, it would get them killed or imprisoned. Neither would help their cause.
    Tonight was Sienna’s first shot at trying to help out. It took nearly three months for the Sephians to trust her enough to not track her every move. Unfortunately, she brought with her few benefits. She had no real connections to speak of. She’d done plenty of work with the military as a ten-ninety-nine, but most of that had been at the mid-and lower officer-level. Her best option was Bobby’s unit.
    After several moments of thinking through her words, Legian responded with his unique cross between a grumble and a sigh that she’d come to call his grumbligh . She knew he couldn’t argue her point. More than anything, the Sephians needed the world’s leaders on their side to beat the more technologically advanced Draeken. It would be foolish to leave a potential solution lying on the ground.
    Legian pulled out what looked like black rubber bands and fastened Jax’s hands behind his back. With a grunt given more for effect than strain, he lifted the unconscious soldier onto his shoulders, and they made their escape through the woods.
    But Sienna’s gut was telling her that they weren’t out of the proverbial woods yet.

Chapter Six
    An hour later, a very sweaty Legian dropped Jax like he was nothing more than a sack of rotten potatoes onto a slate-covered creek bed and began rummaging through the soldier’s pockets. He pulled out the GPS device and looked it over. Then he pressed the Easy Button he held in his other hand, and a bleep reappeared in the bull’s-eye of the GPS. He held up the device, raising an eyebrow at Sienna.
    Still panting from the nighttime marathon, her eyes widened at the same time her mouth dropped open in shock. She pointed at the device. “Do you want them to find us? Turn that thing back on until we get back to the base.”
    He re-clicked the Easy Button, and the bleep disappeared. “The blocker is not one hundred percent effective. We can’t risk it failing en route. There’s only one way to be safe.”
    She could have sworn he had a shit-ass grin on his face when he said the last bit. “I know, I know.” Sienna pulled off her shirt and threw it at him, which brought on an unadulterated smile in response. With a huff, she gave him her back so she wouldn’t have to look at him. Although she could be sure he never took his eyes off her. Legian never seemed to tire of looking at his tahren.
    She leaned against the trunk of a tall evergreen tree and let out a long, deep breath. She had really screwed things up this time. The entire base — all five hundred-plus Sephians — were put at risk because of her good intentions. The only human on the base, she had to be better, smarter, much smarter than everyone else. Instead, tonight proved she was a fuck-up with a long way to go.
    And she should’ve known better. Growing up, Sienna always had to be on her toes. Traveling with her parents to the most screwed up places in the