End Times, Surviving with My Beastly Army novel Chapter 56

End Times, Surviving with My Beastly Army!

Chapter 56 The Speed Freak

Jim nearly left the ground with fury. “You-!”

“Enough.”

Micah silenced him with a single hard look. “Keep it down.”

“No! I refuse to have this woman under our roof! If you insist on keeping her, I’m out!”

Micah’s expression shifted–this wasn’t a bluff he could ignore. “Don’t throw that kind of threat around. What do you actually want?”

Jim’s face split into a grin that belonged in a back alley. “I’m a reasonable man. I just want her for myself. She thought she was too good for me before? Fine. Now I’m going to show her exactly what it feels like- being humiliated by the person she looked down on.”

Robin narrowed her eyes.

She remembered what Rocky had told her earlier, and a suspicion clicked into place.

Micah turned to Robin, his expression turning grave. “He’s just upset. He doesn’t really mean it. But I mention–Jim is a speed ability user. If you stayed with him, he’d actually protect you.”

And there it was.

So Jim was the speed ability user Rocky had described.

71

Would

That also explained why Micah, who didn’t seem like the kind of man to tolerate nonsense, put up with him -having an ability gave Jim leverage nobody could ignore.

Now that his secret weapon was public knowledge, Jim swelled like a balloon.

He tipped his chin toward the ceiling. “How’s it feel? The tables have finally turned. Never underestimate the guy with nothing to lose.

“Get on your knees, admit you were wrong, and tell me you’ll be my dog from now on. Do that, and maybe -just maybe I’ll let it slide.”

“A speed ability user.”

Robin nodded, almost to herself.

“Damn right! I’m a speed ability user! A power reserved for the chosen few! If your apology is sincere, I

might even smile at you and forget the past.”

餅

“Speed ability user,” Robin echoed.

Jim’s swagger faltered. “What’s wrong with you? Are you deaf, or just can’t handle the fact that I’m this powerful now?”

“Neither

23

OOT

O

11:33 Sat, May 23 M

Chapter 56 The Speed Freak

71

Finished

Robin smiled, but the warmth didn’t reach her eyes. “I’m just trying to figure out what’s so impressive about being a speed ability user.”

“What do you-”

Jim never finished the sentence. Robin flicked her gaze to her team, and three people detonated into motion at the same instant.

Two crashes–deafening in the enclosed space.

Ella’s flying kick caught Jim dead center in the chest and launched him into the back wall, bringing two entire shelving units down on top of him.

Every single person in the store went rigid with shock. Micah roared, “What is the meaning of this?! We opened our doors to you, and this is how you repay us?!”

“Nothing personal.”

Ella flicked her bangs aside with effortless cool–every trace of the trembling, teary–eyed girl evaporated, as if she’d never existed. “He called himself a speed ability user. Didn’t look all that fast to me.”

Jim was crumpled in the corner, wheezing, unable to draw a proper breath after that dead–on hit to his solar plexus. He screamed through the pain, “Kill them! Kill them all!”

Chaos erupted in the cramped, pitch–dark store.

“You asked for it!”

Micah hurled himself at Tim–the person he’d pegged as the biggest physical threat.

He was a former kickboxing instructor as well as a strength ability user, In his mind, putting down one aging man was a foregone conclusion.

Take out the leader, and the other three would crumble.

Except Tim ghosted his opening strike with a casual half–step, barely even shifting his weight. And in that single dodge, Micah knew–this man was a professional. Not a hobbyist. Not a weekend warrior.

An actual, lethal professional, operating on a completely different plane from Micah’s kickboxing–class credentials.

Then something even more alarming happened.

Tim disengaged entirely–stepped aside like the fight wasn’t worth his time. A razor–sharp sound of displaced air came from behind. Micah ducked on pure instinct, spun around, and met Robin’s glacial stare.

However slow his brain had been running, it caught up now. These four weren’t refugees. They had never been refugees. They’d walked in here with a plan.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify