Viper (Second Wave Book 1) by Mikayla Lane Read Free Book Online Page A

worrying him. He still couldn’t
communicate with his beast, Zaxin. The trauma had to have been severe in order
to impact his beast and create such a problem with his vision.
    As a Tezarian, Viper had a
parasitic species, known as a Beast inside his brain. The sentient species
lived in harmony with its host and increased their senses, strength and speed.
The beast was also what enabled the host to communicate along the universal
energy path known as the Shengari’. He needed his beast healed in order to
contact his brother Dread.
    Tearing open the last protein bar,
Viper choked down the sand flavored lump, just as he heard Lara’s low whistle,
telling him that she was heading towards him.
    Viper shoved the wrappers in the
pack at his feet and stood, bringing the pack to his shoulder as he did so and
waited for Lara to join him.
    “Come on, we need to go. Now!” Lara
said grabbing his arm and pulling him back in the other direction.
    “What is it?” Viper asked, feeling
her fear and apprehension the moment she touched his arm to guide him.
    “They are close. A lot closer than
I expected them to be. We have to change our plans. If we keep heading where we
were going, we will end up right in their path. We need to head to an alternate
location.” Lara said, panting slightly from the increased pace and her own
fear.
    Her fear was not only due to what
she had seen either, but what she hadn’t seen, she thought as she guided them
to the last place she wanted to go, but the only place left. Her cabin.

 
    Chapter
Four
    Lara was so caught up in replaying
what she had seen over again in her mind that she didn’t realize Viper was
speaking to her until he tugged on her arm.
    Without turning to look at him or
slowing their pace, she asked in a whisper, “What?”
    “I asked what you saw. I can tell…
by how tense you are and the sound of your voice that something has shaken
you.” Viper said, stopping himself from saying that her energy was screaming
her emotions to him. He knew she was scared and deeply worried.
    “I was just surprised to see so
many of them this close to us. They are moving a lot faster than I expected and
with eight of them, they are covering a lot of ground.” Lara said, hoping that
would be enough information to make him stop asking about it.
    She was still struggling to
understand what she had seen. There was no way in hell she could explain it to
him without sounding completely insane. She was even beginning to question her own
sanity. Either way, she needed to get Viper far away from them.
    The fact that they were able to get
there so fast concerned her. It meant that, for some reason, they already had a
presence in the area, or they were using government resources in order to get their
personnel there.
    There was no other way that those
choppers would go unnoticed in the airspace over a national forest without
someone being notified and someone else being paid off to ignore it.
    The new American way, sell your
soul and your constituents for your cut of the silver that you raped from them
with unsustainable taxes, regulations and a ruined job market. She hated it.
Hated that so many elected officials despised the working class so much that
they had basically enslaved them.
    Now they were being hunted. In her
own damn forest, they were being hunted. That pissed her off. If she were
alone, Lara would have relished the confrontation. The chance to take them out
and leave what was left of them to feed her animal friends for days.
    With Viper’s allegiance unknown,
his inability to see and her shoulder, which was already swelling and hot to
the touch, she would be lucky to keep them alive until they reached the cabin.
    Plotting an offensive was out of
the question. It didn’t mean she wouldn’t start deploying her counter measures
as they went, she thought with a grin.
    Lara had years to create unique
security measures around the cabin. Natural ones that would have a low chance
of harming her