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So cracked around his heart “Make sure it’s covered,” he said to his second

Mace nodded as he frowned at Friday, who’d just added so else for him to puzzle over “You take the bike Sandi will be here any minute I’ll hold down the fort until then”

With a nod of thanks, Striker climbed onto the hoverbike “Get on,” he ordered Friday, who stood staring at the machine

“Do you have sorumbled as she climbed onto the seat behind him

Hoverbikes weren’t designed to take two on the seat, and it was a tight squeeze He could feel her plastered flat against his back, her breasts pressed into his muscles

“Be safe,” he said to his friend

The big man nodded as Striker started the bike and headed southwest to the border wall, aware they had bare minutes of a h

ead start There was no tiet Friday past the wall and into the Red Zone before they were both killed

Or worse, captured

Chapter Eight

They were heading into the desert Munroe city lay behind the barrier on their left Even at a distance, the wall see around it A reed in Prisoners in the Northern Territory

Sure, the wall had been built to protect the territory citizens fro into the Red Zone At least, that was the theory when it had been put up a hundred years earlier after an experi within the zone and rendered the area a no-ht Friday that the red mist the weapon dispensed should have dispersed over a year or two The scientists had been wrong Instead of dispersing, it had grown thicker, heavier, and more condensed It was unmoved by wind, unaffected by rain, and deadly to any hues of the Red Zone It looked like a long, red gash on the planet’s surface, a festering wound that wouldn’t heal

And she would have to go through it to get to the antidote she needed

That was, if they could get past the wall

“Shouldn’t you enable the reflector shield on this thing?” Once again, she was co