Here’s another oldie but goldie, from my book INFERNO, the second Hell Kat book. After a long absence Kat has tracked down Hades in a small northern town, but she brought trouble with her as usual…
Sliding his hand to the back of her head, Hades gorged himself on her, nipping at her full sensuous lips, and sweeping his tongue over hers again and again. Low guttural moans of pleasure erupted from her and he swallowed them one by one, eager to take everything she would give him. Satisfied that he would go into battle with the taste of Kat on his lips and the feel of her hard flesh under his hands, he broke the kiss and took a step back.
Blinking up at him, her eyes were a deep green, like the trees and grass they had tumbled upon the first time they had sex, near the ocean in the Neried village of Atlantis. She looked dazed, unsure of what she felt or how to deal with it. Lifting her hand to his face, she stroked his cheek and opened her mouth to speak…
A scream of terror echoed from the village square.
Kat’s hand fell away and she grabbed her shotgun. “They’re here.”
Nodding, Hades retrieved his weapon from the ground, but glanced at her once more. “Stay alive.”
“I always do.” With that, she turned and jogged to the side of the church just as two Dwellers came charging out of the trees.
Kat fired a round into a female Dweller as she came running and screaming toward her. The shell put a huge hole in the woman’s stomach and she went down like a sack of hammers. The other one sidestepped his fallen comrade and ran straight toward Kat his teeth bared, and a long, lethal knife in each hand.
Without pause, Kat pumped another round into her shotgun and shot the crazed man just as he was about four feet away. Blood spray misted her face as the bullet went through his neck, nearly decapitating him.
Out of immediate danger, Kat risked a look behind her at Hades. He had just finished dispatching a dweller brandishing a gun. The guy lay dead on the ground, half his face missing, obviously too slow for Hades’ quick reflexes. He glanced up and met her gaze. A slow sexy smile spread over his face, and he winked.
Shaking her head, she wanted to laugh at his playful demeanor. But as her lips were starting to lift, more screams and gunfire broke into her thoughts. There was a war going on. The last thing she should be doing is musing about how sexy Hades was and how she desperately wanted to be held in his arms.
Relationships. This was exactly why she didn’t have any. They muddled her brain.
Pumping more shells into her gun, Kat nodded to him. “I’m going around front. Sounds like we’re losing the fight.”
“Do you need more shells?” He asked reaching into his jacket pocket.
She shook her head, as she got moving. “Keep ‘em, you might need them.”
“Kat.”
She paused and looked over her shoulder. She could see the anguish on his face, and it nearly made her turn around and run to him.
“Be careful.”
She nodded, unable to form the words she really wanted to say. They would be pointless now, she thought. Without waiting for a response, Kat ran down the side of the church and into the village square where it looked like a blood bath was taking place.
As she rounded the corner, she pulled the trigger and took down a dweller just as he was about to bite into one of the gunmen kneeling in the dirt. When the assailant dropped, a big hole in his chest, the gunman looked up at her, his eyes glazed over as if he couldn’t believe what had just happened to him. She didn’t have time to explain, especially as two more dwellers came rushing toward her.
She pumped another round, and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. She pulled on it again. Still no bullet came rushing out. The dwellers were barely six feet from her and grinning–they had realized that her gun had jammed.
Letting her gun fall to the side, Kat wrapped her hands around two of her metal stars on her belt. Lifting her arms up quickly, she released the throwing stars, sure of her aim while under pressure. Without watching where the lethal metal stars landed, Kat continued through the square taking stock of the situation as she stepped gingerly over fallen villagers. She didn’t even pause when she heard the satisfying thud of two more dweller bodies dropping to the ground.
She approached two of the villagers making their stand near the stone well in the middle of the square. One of them was the Marshal.
He didn’t look up from reloading his rifle as she approached. It was obvious he had enough battle experience to know the difference between enemies and friends when they neared. If she had been one of them, the Marshal would already be dead.
She turned and put her back to them, making a battle triangle with theirs. “How are we doing?” she asked as she surveyed the grounds, taking in the few mutilated bodies that were once villagers.
“Six gunmen down. Five of us left not including you and Hades.”
“Hades is still in back, hoping more don’t come out of the trees.”
“How many are there, do you reckon?”
Kat glanced around the square and to the surrounding buildings that made great places to hide. “I’ve taken out at least six, Hades two maybe, I see another four or five on the ground.” She grabbed the handle of her whip and uncoiled the leather dragging it over her palm. “Another ten maybe, give or take two or three.”
The Marshal glanced over his shoulder at her. “By God, I hope you’re wrong.”
“Me too.” Kat flicked out her whip, preparing for the next onslaught.
But the next assault didn’t come.
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