Alien Soulmate (Paranormal Romance Aliens) by Cristina Grenier

Author:Cristina Grenier [Grenier, Cristina]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 1631560263
Amazon: B00OAWH3AO
Published: 2014-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7: SETBACKS

"Thrin'dak!" Ithril swore in Sitheri as he burst into the Meeting Hall. Six raiding parties, destroyed. Six. They'd been armed to the teeth and sent out under the cover of darkness. Now all of them were dead except for the two males who had managed to make it back and were in the infirmary with several broken bones and wounds that needed closing.

Seventy-two Sitheri had been sent out and only two made it back. And none of them, not one, had taken out a single member of the Des'kos.

It was maddening.

How was it that they managed to be so strong? Ithril didn't understand. Of course, if he confronted their leader about it, he would likely be told that they were dealing with rebels and not the main force, but he didn't buy it for a second. And he couldn't do that anyway. The last thing he needed was to bring the entire might of the Des'kos down on his head when it was this hard to go up against the fringes.

No, he needed a better plan. He needed to think.

Things had not been going according to plan at all. The Council was backing him in his decisions, but he could see that their hearts weren't in it. They nodded to his face, murmured ‘yes, Leader', and did as he told them to, but there was dissent in their eyes. They didn't want to carry out his orders, and he knew it.

On top of that, the other clans were refusing to help him. Many of them had already suffered heavy losses from the Des'kos and their might, and they were reluctant to open themselves up to that again. Even with the promise of Sitheri protection.

So they were no better off than they had been when Angen was alive and in charge.

In fact, they were almost worse off considering how many of their kind had died in the last few days.

He didn't understand it. It shouldn't be this hard. Surely someone had defeated the Des'kos before. They'd rule the entire quadrant otherwise, and that wasn't the case. Maybe he was just going about this in the wrong way. Maybe he needed to be more subtle?

It was so frustrating, and not for the first time, he wished that he had help.

Ithril wished that his brother hadn't been such a peace loving idiot. Carver had a head for these kinds of things. He would have been able to see a plan through this mess and launch some organized force better than Ithril could.

But no. Carver wanted to follow the old ways. He wanted to be just like their father and keep giving things up to the Des'kos until they had nothing left. It infuriated Ithril like nothing else, and he slammed his hand down on the polished surface of the table.

It didn't help that the people were clearly wanting Carver back.

Ithril had heard the mumblings. He'd heard them talking about how Carver would never have allowed this to happen. How he would have kept their sons and daughters safe and prevented this needless death.

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