Free Hunting Cari (First Wave) by Mikayla Lane Page B

ounce of his self-control and training
not to storm the camp and recover the female.
    He
could feel her fear rolling through him in waves. And he smelled her blood.
They hurt her. And he wanted nothing more than to tear every one of them apart
with his bare hands. He had to get to her… and soon.
    “I
explained to all of you before we even came here, that she would be projecting
her emotions. She is obviously projecting fear; otherwise you wouldn’t be
acting like an untrained child instead of a highly trained Valendran Warrior!
Now do whatever you have to do to push that fear aside, because we are going in
there, and we’re going to kill all of them and rescue the female and bring her
back to her people! Do I make myself clear?” Scaden growled through his gritted
teeth, trying to control the anger that was overwhelming the fear he was
feeling.
    “Yes
sir!” The man replied, stepping back and trying to pull himself together.
    “Sir,
the men have the entire area surrounded. We’ve counted fifteen Relians, and
believe two more are in the smaller dwelling to our right. Our scanners
indicate that the female’s cell code is in the larger building to our left.”
Niklosi informed Scaden as he hunkered next to him in the underbrush that
surrounded the housing unit area being used by the Relians.
    Scaden
surveyed the area once more. The area looked like at one point it had been used
as a farming facility. With the smaller structure being a housing unit and the
larger one, a place to store supplies and implements needed to tend to the
land. There was another building that resembled barracks, which seemed to hold
most of the Relians. The wood of the structures was weathered and rotting in
some places. Gaps in the wood seemed to reveal some form of light source being
used in the three buildings in the area. There were doors to each building
clearly visible in the moonlight.
    When
they had gotten to the area there had only been four Relians that were
patrolling the perimeter. However, not long after their arrival, one of the
Relians walked out of the smaller structure and into the barracks. Within
minutes nine, more Relians took up patrolling the area. Scaden had realized
that as soon as they had done that, he and his men had begun feeling the waves
of fear. It had to be the female, Cari’s emotions. They had to get in there.
Her fear was tearing at his insides, the smell of her blood causing a rage he
was having a hard time controlling. He didn’t feel the same kind of fear that
his men did. He was furious over the fact that they had caused her to feel
fear, that they dared draw her blood.
    “Balduen,
are you and your team ready," he asked impatiently into the comm at
Balduen, who was on the other side of the buildings.
    “Sir,
we are ready at your command.”
    “We
are a go at my command.” Scaden stated with as much calm as he could.
    *****
    Cari
didn’t realize she had dozed off until she heard blasts and screams coming from
outside. She had barely put her feet under her body, when the barn door was
roughly jerked open, and she saw the huge, evil Relian that had taunted Jess
with his abuse earlier was striding quickly into the room followed by Vincent
aka Vikan.
    Jess
must have also been awakened by the noise outside, as she was trying to crawl
silently away from the hulking beast headed right for her. No match for the
much larger man, she was quickly scooped roughly into his arms.
    “Come
little mouse, I’m not letting you get away from me. We have far too much fun
together don’t we?” He taunted, striding out the door as he chuckled at her
feeble struggles against him.
    Rage
overcame Cari at Jess’s treatment. She hadn’t even healed from the animal’s
last abuse of her, and he was going to abuse her again! By the One, she
couldn’t begin to imagine how the poor girl had survived years of this.
    “Put
her down! Leave her alone! What the hell is wrong with you animals?" Cari
screamed in rage as she fought