Meg: Hell's Aquarium (62 page)
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Authors: Steve Alten
Tags: #Thrillers, #Suspense, #Espionage, #Fiction
Lizzy charges along the surface, baiting the bull.
The big male soars past the female orca to confront the albino—
—as Belle launches her attack from below. Cruising vertically at twenty knots, the lead-backed sister strikes the orca between its flippers, lifting the bull clear out of the water, its serrated teeth tearing open the male’s tender belly!
Lizzy moves in quickly, gnawing off the killer whale’s dorsal fin in one horrific bite.
The rest of the pod quickly alters its course as the two Megs slaughter their leader.
No other creatures approach the sisters’ kill. None will challenge their rule; the Strait of Juan de Fuca now belongs to
Carcharodon megalodon
. It is in these waters that Belle and Lizzy will birth their young, the pups protected from their parents within the rocky alcoves and shallows until the day that they, too, become sizable juveniles. Forced to territorialize other bodies of water, these young females will eventually beget their own kind, their internal fertilization defying extinction—Mother Nature setting a different course for her apex predator.
THE ANGEL OF DEATH IS DEAD—
—LONG LIVE HER QUEENS.
The Taylors will return in
MEG: Night Stalkers.
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www.SteveAlten.com
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