Wraith's Awakening (Para-Ops)
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Rurik flailed at the clingy fabric. Just as he swiped a portion away from his face, Dex punched the hard plastic handle of the toothbrush into one of the were's eye sockets. Rurik howled but Dex didn't pause. He slammed Rurik's head against the tub several times until he was unconscious.
Swiftly, Dex patted Rurik down, but the were had nothing on him. Dex grabbed Rurik's gun off the floor. It was loaded with tranquilizers, not bullets. So Rurik's mission hadn't been to kill Dex but kidnap him. Why? So he could torture him first?
“Wake up,” Dex growled. He shook the were, then slapped his face several times. Rurik didn't stir.
Damn it, he wanted to question Rurik, make sure he hadn't done anything to Jes, but he needed to get to the hospital, too. He scanned the room as if searching for an answer.
From his position low to the ground, he saw the hairdryer under the sink that he'd failed to spot earlier. He grabbed the hairdryer and ripped the cord out of the appliance. He turned, intending to tie Rurik's hands and ankles, but heavy fingers wrapped around his wrists and wrestled him for the cord. Caught off guard, he sprawled backwards, giving Rurik the chance to twist the cord around his neck. Dex barely managed to keep his fingers between the noose and his flesh.
Abandoning the cord, Rurik wrapped his fingers around Dex's throat, squeezing the air out of Dex's lungs far too quickly.
He grabbed Rurik's thick wrists and tried to pull them away, but the pressure didn't lessen. From the corner of his eye, Dex saw the hairdryer he'd tossed aside. Gasping, he stretched out the fingers of one hand. The appliance was just out of his reach. Dots appeared in front of him and his vision began to dim.
With a frantic lunge, he grabbed hold of the hairdryer's handle and slammed it against Rurik's temple. At the same time, he grabbed the dangling end of the cord, the one that still had the socket prongs attached, and punched the metal into Rurik's other temple. With a vicious twist, he snapped the were's neck.
Rurik collapsed. When Dex rolled him off him, Rurik's eyes were open and unseeing. Dex stared impassively at the gruesome sight. “When you get to hell, tell your brother I send my regards. I'll see you both soon.” He turned to retrieve his phone just as it rang. . .
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Wraith's Awakening is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2011 Virna De Paul
Copyright © 2011 by Virna De Paul
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Published in the United States