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Elayne couldn’t even wiggle a finger. Holly had trapped her thoroughly.
“I’m not going back to that goddamn prison, Harper.” Her throat felt like she’d swallowed steel spikes.
“Nope.”
“Where are we going?” She was hoarse and hurting. But pain didn’t matter to a Zaslon operative. “Somewhere I can screw you with a baseball bat? Where I can ram a—”
“Home.”
“f*****g Australia? Oh no. I’m soo scared.”
Holly’s laugh sounded bitter as she closed the canopy and powered up the Havoc. “That’s no more my home than it be yours. Not even close, mate.”
“I’m not your mate, Harper. I ever mate with you, it’s gonna be—”
“Too f**k me dead. I get it.” She took them aloft.
Then she turned northwest and began to climb over the ridge.
“But that way lies Tiyas Airbase.”
“Better than a slap in the
