B5.5 Thread of Death by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Phillip Kincaid

I couldn’t believe she’d kil ed the three dwarves.

Oh, I’d heard the rumors for weeks now about Gin Blanco. About how she was a powerful Ice and Stone elemental. About how she was real y the assassin the Spider. And most especial y about how she was the one who’d final y kil ed Mab.

Jonah McAl ister had whispered those things and many more into my ears while trying to insinuate himself into my good graces. McAl ister shouldn’t have bothered sucking up to me. The cocky bastard had caused me far too many problems over the years while working for Mab for me to ever consider al ying myself with him. Stil , his information interested me enough to do my own digging into Gin Blanco. Family murdered, some time living on the Southtown streets, taken in and raised by an old man who was also rumored to be an assassin. What I found had only made me that much more curious about her.

She’d caught my attention earlier today when she ran toward the sniper in the tree instead of finding a tombstone to hide behind like most everyone else had. Not something a normal person would do. So when it became obvious that she wanted to say her good-byes to Mab alone, I pretended to leave the cemetery, then snuck in a back way and took up a position behind the same tree the sniper had been in earlier.

At first, nothing happened, except that Blanco said a few soft words to the coffin that I couldn’t quite hear. Then the dwarves appeared. I thought they’d merely come to dig Mab’s grave, but they crept up on Blanco and attacked while her back was turned.

I thought about shouting a warning, showing myself, and stepping into the fight, but Blanco didn’t need my help. She moved with ease and grace, like the knife in her hand was a natural extension of her own body: Owen’s work, I’d wager. He’d always enjoyed making weapons, and what better present to give his assassin lover than a knife or two?

It was one thing to think that Blanco was an assassin; it was another to see her handiwork for myself. She was as impressive and dangerous as McAl ister claimed, striking quickly, brutal y, and ruthlessly, with no wasted movements, no hesitation, and no remorse.

I watched Blanco stab the last dwarf to death. She slumped over his body and then rol ed over onto the ground, and I thought she might be injured herself. But after a few seconds she got back up on her feet. She looked down at the dwarf, her face cold and dispassionate, then slid her bloody knife up her sleeve with no more thought than most people would give to tucking spare change into their pocket. Definitely no remorse there. I liked that about her.

“Wow,” a voice whispered in my ear. “She real y is an assassin. She real y is the Spider.”

I looked at the giant hunkered

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