Chapter 17
Tera thought for just a moment she might be able to survive this who encounter. All she had to do was hide in the forest until CristOF and the other warriors came back. She’d risked everything to make sure that the rebels’ boat would be useless to them. Unfortunately, they caught her in the act. She knew it would be risky but she had to do it. Now they were after her.
“You bitch! I’ll kill you before your male ever comes for you!” The leader yelled from behind her.
She ran back into the woods, weaving in and out of the trees. If only CristOF were there with her, he would tell her what to do or maybe throw her up into a tree. Her was like her own personal Tarzan.
There had been two males chasing her. She thought that the man following close behind her was the one that her captors had called LazarUS. He really scared her. Tera had glanced back. LazarUS was closing in on her.God, please help me.She prayed. A laser blast hit the ground close to her scaring her enough that she tripped and fell down to the ground. She tried to crawl away but a foot landed on her back pressing her to the ground. She let out a scream.
“No one is going to help you female. You escaped me twice—there won’t be a third time for you.”
He raised his foot off and she turned over and sat up. She glared up at him. “You’ll never get away. Your training camp has been dismantled. It’s over for you.”
The rebel leader laughed like a madman. “Do you think that tiny island is all that the rebellion is? We have many islands, on many worlds with warriors preparing for the war that’s coming.”
She shivered at the crazy vehemence in his voice and the hate in his eyes. Tera was scared but she had to distract him while she looked for a way to escape him.
“You want a civil war? Earth had many civil wars. They never bode well for either side. Those type of wars often pitted brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor. Many would die. At least the United States’ Civil War had some good come from it; slaves had been freed. But I get the impression you want a different result from your civil war.”
“We want the humans gone from our world, our culture.”
“You can’t do that. There are mates and families now.”
“The impure will be wiped out so that our people will be whole again.”
She looked at him, incredulous. Another Earth leader had wanted to wipe out a whole group of people and nearly did. “You can’t kill families! That’s...evil.”
“The mixing of the races is an abomination and must be weeded out.”
Since leaving Earth she was only around Katierans and Kiljorns who welcomed humans. They had laws about protecting women and children.
“This goes against your laws. You are dishonoring yourself before your Goddess.”
“You know nothing of our laws!
He glared at her, showing his hatred for her and her kind. It made her shiver in fear. Never had she ever felt such seething disgust and ill will directed toward her. He didn’t even know her, but he wanted her dead. Tera didn’t want to die, she wanted live and be with CristOF.
The thought of never seeing CristOF again, never getting to finally make love to him, to lie in his arms sated and happy, to never get to have children with him—of her whole future being taken from her because of this prejudiced, evil man—infuriated her. She wasn’t going to make it easy for him.
As he moved toward her with his blaster aimed for her head, she kicked up with her leg, knocking the weapon from his hand. He growled in anger and made to jump on her, but she rolled away and he hit the ground instead. Her hand made contact with a large fallen branch, so she grabbed it with both hands and swung at his head.
Whack!
She threw the branch to the ground and took off running again while the man was down. Her heart felt like it was beating so hard it would break free of her chest. Tera glanced back to see if the man was following her, and didn’t see the body she crashed into.
Umph!
She would have bounced backward if it weren’t for the strong arms that wrapped around her. Had the other rebels caught her? Tera panicked punching at the chest in front of her to break free.
“Let me go asshole!”
“Shhh...Easy, love.”
She froze. That voice was familiar. Glancing up, she looked into the face of the man she loved. “CristOF.”
“I need you to stay here while I go after the male.”
She shook her head and gripped his arms. “No, don’t go. He’s dangerous.”
