James Axler - Deathlands 023 - Road Wars

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A figure ghosted out of the darkness, directly in front of Doc's crouching
figure
The movement was so sudden and so silent that it startled Doc. He nearly
squeezed the Le Mat's trigger, but his better judgment asserted itself in the nick of
time. Instead he stood and thrust with the rapier, aiming slightly upward, feeling
the needle tip slide between the protecting ribs on the left side of the intruder's
body.
It was a perfect, clean kill. The flagellant dropped to the floor, shrouded in rags.
Doc withdrew the blade, stepping confidently out into the open space between the
stalls, aware only of the sudden restlessness of the animals, disturbed by the hot
reek of freshly spilled blood—to find himself confronting a second assailant who
stood ten feet in front of him, holding a long-hafted hatchet.
At that frozen moment, Doc remembered one of the Trader's sayings that Ryan
had often quoted. Pull the trigger too soon and you 'll probably be fine. Pull it too
late and you 'll probably be dead.
But the three and a half pounds of steel, lead and gold remained unfired. "Move
and I'll fill you full of holes," Doc warned shakily.
"No, unbeliever," said a cold voice behind him. "You move and I'll fill you full of
holes."
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Road Wars
#23 in the Deathlands series
James Axler
Chapter One
The piece of paper was crumpled and stained, but it was still perfectly legible.
Ryan laid it out on the kitchen table and read it through, for the twentieth time. It
was now two days since the seedy packman, passing through the small ville of
Patriarch, had handed it to Ryan Cawdor.
Success. Will stay around Seattle for three months. Come quick.
Abe.
The note had been on the road for just over six weeks before it eventually found
Ryan, which gave him about a month and a half to make the long and dangerous
overland trek to the far northwest of Deathlands to try to meet up again with his
old friend Abe and his old leader, the Trader.
THE FIRST FRAIL LIGHT of dawn had been edging over the jagged crests of
the mountains to the east of Jak Lauren's homestead when Ryan slipped from his
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bed. Krysty Wroth had still been sleeping, her flaming red hair fanned out across
the floral pillow, seeming to glow with a vivid fire of its own. Her bright green
eyes were closed and one hand lay, fist clenched, across the top of the covers.
They had made love three times during their last night together—their last night
together for a limitless time. Ryan's hope was that he and the Armorer, J. B. Dix,
would be able to make the fifteen hundred miles to the northern Cific coast in a
week or so, trouble permitting, take a few days to contact Trader and Abe, and
then all return securely to old New Mexico. Call it three weeks, at the outside.
That was the theory.
As soon as he'd set his eye on the note, Ryan had known that he would have to
go. Since he couldn't use the gateway to make a jump to Seattle, it was going to
mean some hard traveling, cross-country. It wasn't the kind of journey where he'd
want to take Doc Tanner, Mildred Wyeth or his son, Dean, with him. Jak needed
some time to get his head together again after the brutal slaying of his wife and
baby.
That meant someone had to stay behind and keep an eye on things. Krysty was
unarguably the best for that. And he needed someone to go with him on the road.
Trader used to say that a man traveling alone traveled fastest, but that two good
men traveling together would travel safest.
John Barrymore Dix and Ryan Cawdor had ridden and fought together for more
years—mostly with the Trader—than either cared to remember. Five feet eight
inches tall and one hundred and thirty-seven pounds soaking wet, J.B. had
forgotten more about weapons than most people in Deathlands would ever know.
Sallow, bespectacled and terse, he seldom used one word where none would
suffice.
In bed, the previous night, with the noises of the house quietening for the dark
hours, Ryan had begun to try to explain the plan to Krysty Wroth.
THEY WERE NAKED, close together, yet back to back, a thousand miles apart.
There was the faint golden glow of an oil lamp flickering under the bedroom
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door, and outside the window they could see the sickle moon, floating behind
ragged clouds, low in the black velvet sky.
"Want to sleep, lover?" he whispered.
Krysty didn't answer him at first, but he could tell from the fast, shallow sound of
her breathing that she was still very much awake.
"Want to talk about it?"
"No."
"Sure?"
She turned to face him, her breath warm on his skin. "We've talked it through,
Ryan, talked this kind of thing through a hundred times since we met."
"I have to go."
"You stupe bastard. Think I don't know that?"
"Then…"
Krysty stretched an arm across his chest, then nuzzled her face into the hollow of
his neck. Her right hand touched him, feather-light, on the lips, then traced a firm
line down his throat, brushing past the legion of seamed scars and weals, over the
flat muscular wall of his stomach.
Lower.
"Sure you want to?"
Krysty stopped him with her mouth, the tip of her tongue darting between his
parted lips. Her hand grasped him firmly, bringing him to an instant diamond-
hard readiness.
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"Cut out the talking and get on with the doing, lover."
Their first time that night was over quickly, each taking what was urgently
needed from the other.
The second time was slower, both concentrating more on giving than taking.
Krysty slipped lower down the bed, but Ryan also wriggled around, leaving them
head to toe. He used his fingers, sighing with his own excitement as she took him
in her mouth. Then he repaid the compliment, licking and kissing her delicate
moistness as she rolled on top, thighs parted to receive him.
After the loving they had fallen asleep, wrapped in each other's arms. Ryan
awakened first, feeling the pressure on his bladder from the beer they'd all drunk.
He returned from the outhouse, seeing moonlight glinting on Krysty's emerald
eyes. He knew that she was awake.
"I thought you were triple pissed at me," he said quietly, aware of eleven-year-old
Dean sleeping in the next room.
"No. Not angry. Sad, hurt, lonely and worried. Those are the sort of words, lover.
I won't sleep a quiet hour until you get home safely."
"I know that."
"But it's not going to stop me from sending you on your way with the memory of
your body fresh in my mind. Let's go for the third strike, Ryan."
THE ROOM WHERE HE SAT carried the faint scent of the predark brass oil
lamp that he'd lighted as soon as he closed the oak bedroom door behind him. But
it was overlaid now with the wholesome smell of fried food.
The plate in front of Ryan held three eggs, over easy, with some strips of Jak's
home-cured bacon, mushrooms and hash browns with fresh-baked bread and
salted butter. Nobody else seemed to be stirring, though he was sure he'd heard
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