Deadly Retreat Novels & Stories

" four of you will go for the mission and I don't want any Mistakes just like it almost did today!" "Roger that boss!" With that,he pocketed his hands and left the cybercell leaving the hackers and the six vipers behind. Hellcat quickly followed him.

The night was clear and the only thing you could see was the group of men in a huddle. As Shaye and her girls got closer they noticed that the men where gambling. “Gurl, I mean if that was me I would have told him to stick it in the next bitch."

Father's name is too holy for his sinful self. Unconsciously, Ayden wiped Delisha's tears in the corners of her eyes. Ah, why should there be regrets in life? Or why do regrets always come late? The man swallowed his saliva roughly. He was also devastated by all of this, and he felt tormented by all the things that happened to him.

"Back to the capital! Fortify the Obsidian walls! Move!" ​The remaining Western vanguard completely fractured, their disciplined formations dissolving into a frantic, chaotic retreat as they fled toward the western borders, leaving the frozen plains choked with the bodies of their fallen comrades. _____ ​KAELEN’S POV ​The feedback loop of the white-gold blast shot an electric jolt straight down our quicksilver tether, the density of the magic nearly knocking me off my feet as I stood at the edge of the ridge.

This group of vampires, who only knew how to take from me and use me for their own ends, were not worthy of being my clan. And that unworthy mate, I had already given up on him completely. He would get what was coming to him. --- Three Months Later — Silver Moon Clan Territory I stood on the balcony of my new castle, looking out over the moonlit city, feeling at peace. My phone rang. It was Chloe. “Lydia, did you see the news?” her voice was buzzing with excitement. “Your ex’s clan has completely collapsed!” “I saw,” I said lightly. The internal vampire communiqués were very detailed:

"This is the last time. From now on, you and I are finished. There'll be nothing between us whatsoever. If you dare come back, or if you dare come near my family and me…" He paused, his gaze turning icy. "I'll kill you myself." Avelina shivered. She stared at Arturo for the longest time, too afraid to speak. In the end, she could only nod frantically. Arturo thought that by compromising this one time, he could at least temporarily calm things down and protect the daughter he had never met. But he had underestimated the Brunetti Famiglia's determination to wipe everyone out. He didn't know that a deadly net had already begun tightening—quietly and invisibly—around him.

But it was not built to re-engage a target whose active defense system had just demonstrated it could reach orbital altitude, and the Leviathan's command crew made the assessment that a coordinated withdrawal was the correct response to that information. It moved north. General Vane ordered the full retreat at 8:23 PM. Xander watched the ring formation contract — not rout, contract, the disciplined withdrawal of a professional military organization that had received clear orders and was executing them in good order, and he let them go because his job was to hold the plains long enough for the families to clear, which had been accomplished, and pursuing a retreating force of fifty-four siege

“Pull back! Everyone fall back to rally point Alpha!” It should have been simple. Retreat meant lives. Retreat meant regroup and fight another day. It meant Johnny’s death wasn’t for nothing. Sophie knew it as a fact carved into bone. She felt the rational part of her brain line up and nod. This is right. This is necessary. But the field disagreed. Wolves swarmed like tide, and magic coiled and struck, splitting formations. Comms crackled with orders and the last sounds of men slipping into silence. Sophie’s headset screamed with static. Then Shiloh’s voice, sharp, cut through with urgency. “Sophie, fall back.”