Altered Destiny by Shawna Thomas

Author:Shawna Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2011-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

“Tell me about the woman.” Keldar stormed into the tent.

Jaden sat in a corner. He’d long since been stripped of all his weapons—most of them had been human-made and worthless anyway—and denied every comfort, but still his half-brother sat like he was granting an audience. Keldar’s nostrils flared.

He didn’t rise from his position but looked up and shrugged. “Typical human female. Well, except she was a virgin.”

“A typical female who managed to escape unaided from a Svistra camp and find her way toward the human fortress?” Keldar glared at his half-brother. “Where did you find her?” The question had kept him from sleep yet again. Did the woman have some worth in the human world, a king’s daughter? Some kind of training? Or was she, as Jaden claimed, just a female?

“In the woods, south of here.”

Keldar narrowed his gaze. Jaden didn’t appear to be lying, but he doubted he was getting the full story, and that made him nervous. “Alone?”

“Yes.”

“And you call that typical?”

Jaden again shrugged. “I didn’t interview her. I just took her.”

“Without a fight?”

Jaden laughed. “Oh, no. There was a fight. She can be…stubborn.”

“You’re not telling me something.” Keldar’s eyes narrowed. Jaden was still, too still.

“What could I possibly not be telling you?”

That was exactly what worried him. “We’ll find her and bring her back.”

“Why? There are more female humans. Has it really been so long since you’ve had a virgin offering?” Jaden’s eyes widened before his face softened in apparent compassion. “Oh, yes. You’ve probably never had a virgin offering.”

Keldar’s temper burned. “What is that supposed to mean?”

“You have power, for now, but who honors you, Keldar?”

“Is that a threat?”

Jaden smiled, but his eyes were steel. “I don’t make threats.”

Keldar saw black. When his vision cleared, the edge of his sword bit into Jaden’s neck. “What’s to stop me from killing you now and having done with it?”

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