Archangel's Resurrection by Nalini Singh

Author:Nalini Singh [Singh, Nalini]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

27

Michaela thrust a hand through her hair, which she’d pulled back in a loose braid at some point but had come mostly undone. “I need to be clean. My gorge roils at being covered in this horror—I’ll be quick.”

“She’s right.” Zanaya picked at her own clothing; it stuck to her skin with sweat and dirt and the veil knows what else. “A few minutes won’t make a significant difference.”

She could see Alexander fighting to gainsay them; he’d always had his little blind spots, had Alexander. They all did. But he gave a curt nod, and they left the command room. A waiting Lemei led Michaela to a guest suite, while Zanaya and Alexander flew up the central core of the fortress until they reached the level with their bathing chambers.

Alexander didn’t invite her into his, and she didn’t invite him into hers.

War didn’t allow for such luxuriant sensation.

So it was that they scrubbed themselves clean as fast as possible and dressed in readiness to meet back in battle command.

Once more, Zanaya found herself pulling on leathers that fit her small and curvy frame to perfection. This time, the color was midnight black, the same shade she’d been known to prefer in her time—and it came with a built-in sheath for her sword. Someone had taken great care to make this for her.

Lover, she said mind-to-mind, this is a minor thing in the scheme of what’s happening right now, but can you ask Lemei for the identity of the people behind my clothing? I wish to thank them.

A pause. Organized by Lemei herself. Made by Shahira and her team. And Zani, it’s not a minor thing that you care to thank them.

She smiled as she left her room, felt even more joy when a sleek orange cat wearing a bejeweled collar walked over to her for affection. “Ah, a cat of the court, I see,” she murmured, giving the creature its due. “You are most magnificent.”

However, the burst of happiness was but fleeting; it faded as she walked into battle command and the reality of war. The command was a cavernous space, but unlike similar rooms in the past, it held not only the sand table and maps on the walls, but plenty of the screens that Zanaya had already witnessed. A number of other devices that flickered with lights and beeped now and then also sat in the room, along with their operators. Several of those operators were thin vampires who would’ve never passed warrior training.

Wars are not what they were in our time. Alexander’s voice in her head, the general having beaten her back.

She wasn’t surprised he’d divined the direction of her thoughts. I wouldn’t say so, lover. The smartest of the Cadre always enticed great minds to our courts. People whose bodies weren’t built for the physical act of war, but whose minds could turn the tide. Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten Ibanaya?

A startled smile that creased his cheeks just as Michaela entered the room. I never could beat him in a game of strategy.

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