Blue Abyss: Timewalker Chronicles, Book 3 (The Timewalker Chronicles) Read Online Free PDF

hair tipped in black, or eyes that swirled black in gray like moving marble.
    “What year is it?”
    Mari frowned. Of course he’d want to know. Just how long had he been in that glass coffin?
    Raiden’s eyes narrowed when she told him. “Earth’s calendar?”
    “Yes.” Yep. Not human. Mari tilted backward like a teetering bowling pin and he wrapped strong hands around her biceps to steady her. Just who was rescuing whom here?
    “Impossible…”
    “Sorry.” Not sure what she was apologizing for, Mari did it anyway. He seemed distressed by her answer. Her head buzzed and she knew she was about to faint. Fat lot of good she’d do him after that. She tugged on his hands and angled her head toward the door. “Come on. We’ve got an air tank for you. You’ll have to follow me out. It’s dark and we’ve got to swim through a couple hundred meters of cave to get back to open water.”
    “They always did like the deep, dark places.”
    “Who?”
    Raiden didn’t answer, just turned her in his arms and stepped up to her side. He draped one of her arms over his shoulders and held it in place. His free arm went around her waist. He had to stoop to help her walk, but she felt oddly numb about the whole thing. She knew what happened next in this dream, and it wasn’t hot sex, declarations of love at first sight, or any other desirable event.
    In this dream, he turned into a monster and she died. That was what came next.
    Every freaking time.
    Whatever. She’d have to donate more blood to get the exit door opened again. Her finger still hurt, but the slight pain was hardly noticeable now compared to the rest of it. Was she breathing acid down here? If so, it was too damn late. She hurt too much to pick up her tanks. She’d have to sit down and try to wiggle into her gear without the crotch harness.
    She had no choice but to keep going. She couldn’t abandon him, because balancing every nightmare there was bliss, dreams of him holding her, caressing her. Loving her. She’d been in love with this version of him for months. He had no idea who she was, but she’d spent every night for two years with him while she slept. She had to help him escape. Her very own Sleeping Beauty. She was human. Expendable.
    She had no idea how she knew it, but he was neither.
    Knife up. Dive light on. Mari and Raiden were on the landing platform with her dive partner watching the other door when it slid open behind them. Mari turned around to face a brightly lit room full of blaring television broadcasts in multiple languages from all over the world. Military radio chatter was going on in the background as two dark things rose to a tower over her average height. Shaking, she waited for them to move, to speak, to do something, anything but stand there in silence and scare the shit out of her.
    They had horribly twisted features, not much humanity remained in their faces for her to read. They looked like they’d been normal once, before they’d transformed into these creatures. Raiden said nothing, but he didn’t let her go. And neither man with her panicked. Her S.E.A.L., she expected it. Bonus points for the alien hero. She barely held back a scream.
    Her nightmare had come to life in full, 3-D reality. They were so screwed.
    “Who are you, human?” The voice grated on her nerves, like Freddy Krueger’s blades on the chalkboard. Raiden stiffened beside her, but she ignored him for now. She heard the fiend’s words, but the voice was deep, metallic and echoed with the voices of many, like a computer synthesizer from hell.
    Maybe she could bluff their way out of this. Mari felt her heart speed in a rapid staccato under her ribs. She hoped these things couldn’t hear it. What the hell was she supposed to do now? These monsters would kill them both. They made the core of her bones cold with dread. Whoever they were, whatever they were, every cell in her body was screaming in terror.
    They waited, like giant spiders, for her to