Angel 6.0: Pursuit (Space Opera Romance) (Angel 6.0, Book 4) by Travis Luedke

Author:Travis Luedke [Luedke, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-22T05:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 12

Something significant had changed in my world after the duel, but I didn’t know what it all meant. I accompanied Rollick and his doctors back to the Palace and watched them tend his wounds. The doctors kept trying to pick at me, to treat my shoulder and I had to shoo them away repeatedly. It was sore as hell, but I’d be fine soon enough. What had my unerring attention was Rollick.

His back had been slashed open pretty bad, and he’d definitely bear the scar for life. I feared his spinal column had suffered irreparable damage. The damn fool almost got himself killed for me, and I couldn’t bear to leave him alone. After many hours of sitting at his side, with him unconscious in a drugged haze, his sister Lenka convinced me to go see Cesar and his men.

Cesar had been allowed to dock his shuttle at the Palace Station. He and his men were given rooms in the Palace just down the hall. I made my way to Cesar’s room and he leapt up the moment I opened his door. “Where have you been? Why didn’t you tell me where to find you? I’ve been mad with worry!”

I was exhausted, emotionally and physically. I just wanted to rest. “I’m fine, Cesar. The Prince needs me. He was fighting for me. I’m the reason he’s hurt. He almost died for me.”

Cesar eyed the mostly healed wound on my shoulder. “Ah … Angel. You’re insane! I can hardly believe you stepped into the battle to take his place. Damn near lost your head.” He ran his fingers through my hair, pulling the dark, unruly strands away from my eyes. “The way you handle those weapons, girl. You’re a dangerous woman.” He kissed me hard on the lips. “You have my promise. I will never piss you off like that. And if I do, I’ll be running the other way as fast as I can.”

He was smirking and chuckling. It felt so good to be with him again, seeing his smile, his good cheer. I leaned into him for a hug and winced when he bumped my shoulder wound.

He looked at my wound in confusion. A creepy suspicion flitted across his eyes. “How the hell are you healing so fast? That torch slashed you open to your elbow. Now it’s …”

He grabbed my arm and leaned in to look closer. “Holy shit, it’s almost gone! You’re not even scarring.”

I watched him watching me, and I was so fucking tired. Tired of Rollick, of the Warriors and their xenophobic hatred, of Cats that perpetually expected something from me, and I was tired of lying to the man I loved. “It’s me, Cesar. I’m different from other girls …”

His glare filled with suspicion and he pulled my chin up to him, face to face. “What are you telling me?”

I could barely hold his gaze with the intensity of shame sweeping over me. I felt dirty, sleazy, like a con artist who had tricked him.

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