03 United Eden by Nicole Williams

Author:Nicole Williams [Williams, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Web Books Publishing
Published: 2013-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

What I saw next wouldn’t compute. I’d left the girls in the kitchen, banging around the cupboards like women on a mission, and in barely ten minutes time the room had filled with twenty bodies, a handful holding a wide-eyed Abigail and another handful struggling with a furious faced Cora.

My bachelorette party had just gone from death-defying to downright deadly.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SURPRISE

“What is this?” I asked as the man with the suspenders shouldered past me, making sure he hit me with the same force I had him.

“And here I was under the impression you were a smart girl,” an all too familiar voice emitted behind a shield of bodies before cutting through them. Two Haywards – plus one soon-to-be – all on their own, hundreds of miles away from the protection of their Alliance, and the first thought that comes to mind is, what is this?”

“Troy,” I sneered, scanning the room, calculating a defensive that wouldn’t end as soon as it began. Given the numbers of Inheritors Troy had brought along and that the only allies I had in the room were bound up, my chances of putting together a successful fight wasn’t looking good.

But that had never stopped me before. “What do you want?”

“Yet another question as unremarkable as the first.” He clucked his tongue, shaking his head. “You know what this is and what we want.” The vagueness of his answer was specified by the full-length stare that slid down my body.

“Well, here I am,” I said, spreading my arms to the side. “I won’t put up a fight. This time.”

Troy gauged me, trying to figure out if I was cooperating or antagonizing. No matter what he decided I was, he motioned towards the remaining handful of men not attached to Cora and Abigail. As they progressed towards me, I didn’t step back, nor did I let the adrenaline pulsing through my body ready it for a fight.

Instead, I searched for peace in the moment, remembering the look in William’s eyes last night. He was always in the forefront of my mind in these kinds of instances. So it wasn’t a surprise thoughts like ‘Would I ever see him again?’, ‘What would he do if he never saw me again?’ and ‘What would I do if I never saw him again?’ were at the forefront, but as much as the possible answers to these paralyzed me, I wouldn’t let Cora and Abigail suffer in my place. This was my battle, the war I’d brought about. I wouldn’t let anyone sacrifice themselves in my place.

“That’s a good girl,” a voice that grated on me like nails running down a chalkboard purred behind me at the same time her hand pinched around my neck. My parents had always taught me that hate is a very strong word . . . but I hated that woman.

“Of course the cowards wouldn’t go into battle with a twenty year old girl without you, Stella,” I said, trying to sound like all my strength and emotion hadn’t just run dry at her touch.

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