The Protectors Series Bundle - By Nana Malone Page 0,98
moment, then hit her comm. “You have to go, they have nisulin bullets. Alex keeps that portal open, and who knows what bullets are landing on the other side. I won’t risk the others. Go through it and shut it down.”
Jansen looked at her and shook his head. As if to drive the point home, the Trackers let loose a spray of bullets toward the portal. “Shit. Symone. I—”
She shook her head. “Go. I’ll get back. I’m too stubborn to die.”
She knew Jansen. His mutinous expression flitted over his face until he faced the inevitability. Shouting curses, he sprinted for the portal and dove through it, even as Symone witnessed the edges start to fold in. But before the portal closed, she watched in horror as two Trackers came out of the shadows headed for the barely open wormhole. Without a thought, she sent all her power across the expanse of lawn. Sparks flew out of her hands like lightning bolts and traversed the lawn with ease. The lawn lit up like the sun had come out to play. One of the Trackers was halfway through the threshold when he went down. There was an explosion on the edges of the gateway, and she sucked in a gasp of air. He’d had a bomb. Had she inadvertently ignited it? Were her friends okay? The lower half of the Tracker’s body slumped to the ground. The top half was nowhere to be seen. Bisected. She grimaced.
That was it. She and Garrett were on their own.
Chapter Sixteen
Cassie tried to claw out of Seth’s grasp. “Symone. We have to go back for Symone. Oh God, Seth. Let me go.” She could feel her power building, and she didn’t need him hurt as well. “Let me go.”
“Why? So you can force Alex to open the portal again? No. Baby, it’s too late. We can’t go back that way. We have to find another way to get her.” He hushed her. “You’ll hurt yourself if you keep going like this. Symone is strong. She’ll find a way. She knows how to take care of herself. She’ll rendezvous at a safe house and call.”
“You don’t know that.” She all but screamed at him as she sat up in the damp grass of the Lair. “She’s all alone out there. We abandoned her. Just like her parents and just like we let her leave before. Don’t you get it? She thinks she doesn’t belong here, and now we’ve gone and left her behind.”
Seth held her tight, whispering nonsense words in her ear. It took her several moments to realize he wasn’t hushing her. He was talking to their baby. Well shit. He was right. She did have to calm down. No telling what surges of power would do to the little alien growing inside her. Nodding, she inhaled deeply. “You’re right. Where’s Jansen, we need an alternate—”
It was only then that she surveyed the grounds. Something was wrong. No light came from the floods on the front lawn. No light came from the house. Was there a power outage? But why weren’t the generators on? She saw them then, half her team—Morgan and Alex lying unmoving on the ground. Jansen leaned over Morgan. Lisa had come running from the house with a flashlight and her medical bag. Half of a dead Tracker lay just a few yards from their position.
“Seth,” she breathed. “What the hell happened?”
“Seems like some kind of EMP must have blown all our power. I think Symone finally came into her full strength. If Peter finds out she’s this powerful, he’ll never let her go.”
“I just wish she wasn’t all alone.”
Seth stroked a thumb over her cheek. “She’s not.”
***
At first, Symone could only watch the portal close in muted acceptance. But as she glanced back at Garrett, she knew she couldn’t have left him behind. Even if he had been their enemy. He wasn’t now. And he was willing to give his life to save hers.
Ticking her chin up a notch, she leveled her gaze on him. “It’s you and me. So I need you to cooperate. I know you don’t have any powers right now, but as far as I can tell, your legs work. So you need to use them. You’re too heavy to carry. Do you understand?”
Slowly, with his head lolling, he managed to bring it up and down once.
“Good, now I need to get us transport. Where are the cars kept?”
He angled his head to the driveway that led somewhere