Free Bone Dust & Beginnings (Alexa's Travels Book 1) by Angela White

imploded, glass flying through the truck.
    The driver swerved, automatically turning south to keep from being trapped by the cliff wall, and a barrage of gunfire rained on the truck as it turned.
    Corbin was very aware of her target as he tied a bandage from his kit around the stinging arm wound she’d just delivered. Blood dripped in thin sheets. She would pay for that!
    Alexa fired again, strategically hitting lead vehicles that were sent careening into different directions. The weakened glass had the soldiers looking for a place to use as cover, and the opposite cliff wall was the only other spot for that purpose. It sent the trucks right by her and Edward’s bullets.
    She’s herding them now , Edward thought, firing. His shot took out the rest of the windshield on that lead truck, and he grinned. This real life was perfect most days.
    Alexa watched the remaining vehicles turn to follow their leader, and saved the rest of the bullets she had in her gun. Waste in any form was destructive to her goals.
    Edward’s smile faded as the soldiers pulled behind the huge boulders that lined the opposite cliff. Men began pouring from the trucks like water. So many…
    He watched Alexa drop from the tree like it was a single step, and tensed to follow her flight…
    Crash!
    Alexa had no intentions of running now that the soldiers were out of the protection of their vehicles. Gunfire filled the canyon, echoing off the cliff faces and out into the barren wilderness.
     
     
    6
    “Get down, you idiot!”
    Corbin snatched Rab back by his head, and shoved the gifted man behind a boulder.
    “We’re no match for her guns!”
    “But there are more of us…”
    “She’s an Alpha!” Corbin snapped, watching his men get slaughtered. His three Lieutenants were trying to call them back, but these lower-level men had no discipline.
    Crack!
    Corbin’s eyes narrowed in on the shooters, using a clever mirror to keep from poking his head out for her to aim at. Only Alexa and one man, but there had been three bedrolls. Where was her newest man?
    His sharp eye went over their camp again - a fire pit with a small pot simmering over it… wood with gouges, bloody rags. Someone was hurt. And what did you do with an injured party during a fight? You stashed them.
    Corbin scanned the area, landed on the deadened branches beside the neat camp… and found a shadow among the dense limbs. The big bunker wanted her recaptured or hit with tracker juice, but one of her crew would be just as good…
    “Stay here!”
    Rab watched Corbin dart toward the vehicles with concern that had grown into alarm by the time the Commander had slipped around them and out of view. Was he being left?
     
     
    7
    Shielded by the trunk, Alexa fired again, taking down one of the closest soldiers. She and Edward were running through Corbin’s men, but where was their leader?
    Edward slapped the clip in place in time to shoot the last two men within an instant of each other. The chaos was complete. Bodies were spread all over the parched floor of the canyon.
    Alexa waved a hand. “Make sure they’re all dead, gather supplies.”
    Edward nodded. He took a step…
    Crack! Crack!
    “ AAAhhhh !”
    Daniel.
    They’d heard that noise too much to ever mistake it. They both turned toward camp.
    Alexa made a fast gesture. “Do as you’ve been told!”
    Edward hated the idea of leaving her alone to rescue the biker, but he wouldn’t disobey. He moved toward the bodies with fast steps, hoping to be done and at her side before it was over.
    Alexa rounded the edge of the cliff and slowed to a steady pace. Her eyes saw Daniel in Corbin’s tight grip, and then the biker’s newest wounds. Without hands, Daniel couldn’t fight back. Both of his palms were dripping blood.
    “I’ll put the next one through his head!” Corbin shouted, dragging the dazed man back further into the shadowy cover of the cliff face and its boulders. “Get out here - where I can see you!”
    Alexa