Dragon: Allie's War Book Nine

DRAGON

ALLIE’S WAR BOOK NINE

by

JC Andrijeski

Copyright © 2015 by JC Andrijeski

Published by White Sun Press

Cover Art & Design by Jennifer Munswami at

J.M. Rising Horse Creations

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2015

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Synopsis for
Dragon: Allie’s War Book Nine

“He is Dragon...He breathes.”

After the nightmare in Dubai, Allie and Revik are on the run, dragging the remains of their army to stay ahead of Shadow. Revik knows they can’t run forever, and comes up with a plan...a plan that might mean sacrificing himself to keep his family alive.

Meanwhile, Allie returns to America to hunt Shadow’s network, working with the remnants of the human government to forge a cross-race alliance. Knowing that Menlim might kill her husband, that her own leadership team has been infiltrated...as has the presidency of the United States...Allie fights to stop the remaining world powers from being manipulated into nuclear war.

Then Dragon appears, another broken intermediary with unbelievable power. He might just be the most dangerous seer Allie’s ever encountered…including her husband, who Dragon seems determined to hunt for reasons of his own.

Synopsis for the
Allie’s War
Series

The Allie's War series is a psychic romance set in a unique, gritty version of Earth populated by a second race of psychic beings called Seers. Its heroine, Allie Taylor, marked "The Bridge" from birth, was born to be the leader of the Seer race and the bringer of the next stage in humanity's evolution. To many Seers, that means the death of just about every human on the planet.
 

She is helped and hindered, awakened and impeded by her antihero partner, Dehgoies Revik, whose on-again-off-again relationship with the dark beings known as the Dreng may destroy them both and the entire human race.

The series takes place in a modern version of our world at the brink of apocalypse and a dystopian future. It spans centuries along with the lives of its main characters, the Seers, and the wars they fight with themselves and their human allies and enemies, (appropriate for ages 17 and up - steamy sex scenes in parts!).

For the real Revik, wherever he may be

Prologue

BEACH

It was Revik’s idea.
 

Most of the truly crazy plans we came up with were. The ones that required us to turn ourselves inside-out, to maybe tear some part of our souls apart in the process.
 

But desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes.

These were desperate times.

Moreover, my husband might be a romantic at heart, but when it came to military ops, his brain was in charge. His brain was a cold-hearted bastard pragmatist, through and through. He’d warned me about that much back when I first met him.

Of course, he’d often accused me of the same.

I told myself all of those things again now, like I had been for the last eight months.

I told myself those things even as I fought to control my heart rate, sprawled on grainy sand in a ripped up silk gown covered in smoke and powder burns, panting, sand stuck to my face, sand in my mouth and fingernails and hair. I could see trash littered across the edge of the river, including around where I lay. I felt the screaming flare of injuries on different parts of my body. Burns, cuts, scrapes, bruises…and at least one bullet that found its mark with my lack of armor. I hadn’t scanned yet to check, but I was pretty sure the metal passed through.

I knew that wouldn’t matter, either.

I was already dead…I had only to wait out the finale.

I lay there, fighting the exhaustion that penetrated my bones. I told myself this had been Revik’s idea, that the plan had been his…that it wasn’t my fault.

None of it felt very convincing.

And anyway, in the end, the fault had been mine. At the decisive moment, it had been me to pull the trigger…or not pull the trigger, as the case may be.

I’d let him down. I’d really let him down…all of them, really.

The humans too.

Maybe the humans more than anyone.

In the end it all hinged on timing, and my timing, as usual, completely sucked. No matter how carefully I tried to plan things, in the end I simply hadn’t gotten out in time.

I hadn’t gotten out in time.

I hadn’t even been close.

I turned my head, looking reluctantly up at the sky.

Mostly, I think I was in shock.

That shock worsened as I stared at the reddish clouds of smoke on the horizon.

I’m not even sure that shock was really about my own life. I’d known from the beginning I probably wouldn’t make it out of this. Revik and I talked about that, too, once upon a time…about how neither of us really believed we’d make it to the other side. We only hoped enough others would make it that it would all feel worthwhile.

Jon. Wreg. Lily. Hell, even Kali and her crazy cult, especially if they could keep the List humans and seers alive.

But me and Revik? Yeah, I had my doubts.

So did he.

The thought came with regret, sure. I wanted to live.

I wanted to drink cappuccinos and go swimming. I wanted to watch Lily grow up. I wanted to be married…really married…and have a lot of long, leisurely mornings in bed with cappuccinos where I could watch Revik do things while he was naked. Anything, really. I still had a fantasy about a house somewhere, on the beach or in the woods. Revik and I without the military gear on, without anything more pressing on our minds than whose turn it was to take Lily to school…and what we should have for dinner…and whether we should put on clothes or go swimming or stay in bed and fuck a few more times before we ate.

But yeah, it was a fantasy.

I guess that was the point.

My eyes focused on the columns of smoke I could still see in the distance. I didn’t really let myself take it in, though…I couldn’t go there yet. Not yet.

I couldn’t think about the lives back there, or what the ripple effects would be. I couldn’t think about the people. I really, really couldn’t think about the people.

Revik.

I couldn’t think about Revik.

Even so, tears ran down my face, hot and sticky in the dirty sand as I looked up at that sunset-drenched sky. I couldn’t even look for him in the Barrier to get that final answer.