Page 49 of Arresting the Warlord

“Yes.”

“I want my stun gun back too.”

“Uncle Saul has it.”

I took a cautious peek into the room. A very large male filled the bed. His face was a battered mess. “Are you going to alert the General and Zarek?”

“I am.”

Beep. Beep. Beep.I glanced at the monitor. His heart rate and blood pressure were spiking. “He’s awake.”

Jake pulled his sword.

Cantor vanished.

Oh crap. Not good. Before I could react, Cantor grabbed me in a chokehold and teleported. There was a flash of black and we appeared in the parking lot.

Jake popped in ten seconds later. “Let her go or die.”

“Follow me and I will break her neck,” Cantor warned, tightening his grip.

Black spots danced in my vision and breathing was damn difficult.

“First chance you get, zap him,”Jake commanded on our private link.

“You betcha.”Poof! Cantor teleported again and we were standing on a highway with a semi-truck barreling toward us. “Shit!”

Cantor swayed unsteadily and for a moment his grip loosened.

I slipped out of his hold and ran for it.

The idiot tackled me.

Slamming on the brakes, the semi-truck driver laid on the horn. Smoke billowed from the tires as the truck slid sideways down the roadway.

“Wanna go home,”Oola cried.

“Truck!”I hollered mentally as Cantor yanked me to my feet.“Teleport dammit. He can’t stop in time.”

“Me bite.”

Cantor teleported us an instant before we could become roadkill.

My heart pounding in my chest and my breath coming in shuddering gasps, I glanced around. We were back in Monument Valley. Go figure. “You gotta a death wish, or what?”

“Many have tried to kill me. I cannot die.”

And the sad thing was he believed it. “I hate to shatter your illusion but you’re a dead man walking. Look, I’m a police officer and for your own safety I’m placing you under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.”

“I do not answer to your laws.”

Yep. I didn’t think so, but I had to try. “Surrender or die.”

“Never. I am the most powerful Coletti ever born and the rightful Overlord of the Coletti clans.”

I peered over my shoulder at the idiot who had made no attempt to take my laser pistol. “Really? Wow. Does Zarek know that?”

“I will challenge him when the time is right.”

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