Sunday, May 1, 2022

Six on Sunday - BREACHERS: Kamrose and Cross, Book 4, a Contemporary Fantasy/ Paranormal Romance

Six on Sunday - Six paragraphs from BREACHERS: Kamrose and Cross, Book 4, a Contemporary Fantasy/ Paranormal Romance

1. Two straight whiskeys and a T-bone steak done exactly the way he liked it were enough to let him catch a few winks during the nearly three-hour trip to the San Antonio International Airport. No sooner had he exited the plane than another figure, this time in a dark brown suit, was waiting for him when he entered the terminal.

2. She found herself staring at the man. He wasn’t movie star handsome. His face was weathered. His nose looked like it had been broken at least once, and his shaggy hair needed a comb and scissors. But it was his intense blue eyes that held her spellbound. That, and the fact that his western-cut, long-sleeve denim shirt with the pearl snap buttons looked like it had been painted over his muscles. Her first thought was that he must hit the gym every day of the week, but he didn’t give off a gym vibe.

3. The man leaned back against his desk, took a deep breath, and exhaled it through his mouth. “Here’s the deal. Both sets of bones came from young males, approximately fourteen to eighteen years of age. The remains show no signs of violence. No marks from weapons, like bullets or knives. No sharp edges or teeth marks to indicate they’d been sawn apart, although victim number two had a recently healed fracture of the ulna. However, I did find something rather odd,” he remarked. “The victims appeared to have been wearing a type of uniform.”

4. Trenna pulled, using all her strength, but she felt as though she was making little headway. She’d sensed a shifting in the malevolent power, and something inside told her that it would soon come after her. Silently, she cursed herself for not bringing her sword inside with her. Redoubling her efforts, she tried even harder, yet the height and weight difference between herself and Reece was beginning to take its toll on her endurance. Releasing his shirt, she tried to pull her partner to his feet, placing his weight upon her own shoulders.

5. “Exactly. That factory was built over what could possibly be a major burial ground for hundreds of Mexican soldiers. Hundreds of soldiers, long dead, yet their spirits are still fighting, still waging a war that was nearly two hundred years ago. The gah have latched onto those entities and are feeding off of them like leeches. Feeding off their energies. So unless I destroy the gah, the spirits of those dead soldiers will never rest in peace.”


6. “All right! Show yourselves! You know I’m here! Come out and fight me! You know you want to! You don’t want me anywhere around this place because you’ve claimed it for your own. But I have some bad news to tell you. This place isn’t going to be around much longer. They’re tearing it down. Do you hear me? They’re tearing this place down and building something else here! It’s going to become a place where hundreds of people will flock to on a daily basis, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it! If you try, you’ll use up all your energies, and then where will you be? So you have two choices! Come out and face me now, or go back into hiding and never come out again! How do you like the sound of that, eh? You can face me now, and be defeated in a glorious array of energy! Or crawl away like worms, and never show your entities again!”


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