Page 74 of The General's Captive
I huffed but before I could jump down, his big hands framed the entirety of my waist, lifting me down as if I weighed nothing more than an empty paper bag.
“Time to walk,” he said, before turning toward the city and along the highway that had been taking us to our destination.
“We should try and find some shelter. It will be dark soon,” I pointed out, but he just scoffed out a short,
“And?”
“And that’s usually when the dark Myths attack.”
He laughed and told me, “I doubt it.”
“Well, that thing would beg to differ,” I said, flinging a hand out toward the dead Manticore as we passed it, although it had only attacked at sunset, but either way, he got my point.
“That is what you would call a Class two, and it’s dead for a reason.”
I sucked in a startled breath hearing this.
“It was?” My astonishment was easy to hear.
“Yes,” was his short answer, making me try and jog to catch him up, although this didn’t help the pain in my leg.
“But you killed it… like… like it was… was…” I stammered and glanced back at the thing before looking up at him, as if I was doing a double take.
“Easy to kill? That’s because it was,” he finished off for me, and it was so matter of fact, it was slightly terrifying.
“But that would make you…”
“What you call a class one, yeah, but then again, it’s most likely why I am The General’s second in command.”
I gasped, stopping dead in the middle of the road as shock tore through me. And it was only when he saw that I had stopped walking that he sighed, as if annoyed that he had said too much.
“Don’t make a big deal out of this, Alex,” he said, making my mouth drop.
“Big deal… are you serious? You help lead his armies and you are…”
“What? One of your monsters? Just another big bad Myth that needs to be put down and shot? Tell me, Alex, if you had a gun in your hand right now, would you pull the trigger? Try and shoot me dead?”
I flinched back as if I had been struck.
“No, of course not,” I argued.
“And why not? I am the enemy, am I not?” He sounded so affronted, making my shoulders drop as I admitted,
“There is clearly a lot I don’t know and was wrong about.”
“And that there is probably the smartest thing you have ever said,” he replied before facing back to the road and telling me, “Come on, we still have hours of walking ahead of us. And despite there being little chance of another attack, seeing as I am with you, your human eyesight is still shit.”
I huffed, “Jeez, thanks, just say it as it is, why don’t you.”
“I’m sorry, did you happen to develop the abilities to see in the dark in the last twenty-four hours?” he argued.
“I’m not justifying that with an answer,” I said, folding my arms over my chest.
“You just did, and the answer is no, so get your panties out of a twist, as they say, and get moving those little legs of yours,” he ordered, making me scowl before scanning the length of him to make my point.
“Why, what you gonna do, tip toe like a ballerina so I can keep up?”
He smirked and offered, “Or I could toss you over my shoulder.”
