Blood on Silk by Treanor Marie

Author:Treanor, Marie
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2010-07-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

At some point early on in the bizarre flight, her abject terror got lost in wonder. The world jolted as it sped by her eyes, in between long, soaring swings that felt more like the flying dreams of her childhood than anything with a basis in reality. Hanging on to his shoulder with one hand, the fabric of his shirt with the other, she registered the beauty of the city from this angle: the crowded rooftops of Buda against the blackness of the night sky. She even had odd glimpses of blurred people moving in the streets below.

“Are we flying?” she exclaimed. She dragged her fascinated gaze up to his face in time to see his gaze flicker to her in something like surprised approval.

“Alas, no.” His gaze left her. She felt again the tensing of his muscles and the weird soaring through the air that made her want to clutch her stomach. “Merely jumping.”

They landed with a soft thud, and almost before she realized it, he was running again—running far faster than was humanly possible across the rooftops and leaping over the spaces between.

Eventually, she remembered she should be angry, even if her fear had gotten temporarily lost. “Where are you taking me?”

“To my palace.”

Palace. Not lair, or den, or crypt. “You have a palace in Buda,” she repeated. Of course, his definition and hers would be different. He lived below the ground, in cellars and sewers—why didn’t he smell bad?

“Oh no. I embrace the new city of Pest.” He swerved, then jumped, and Elizabeth again saw the Danube spread out before her.

“You’ve been misleading them,” she said in dismay. “Leaving a false trail.”

“Just in case they had the forethought to watch, or have the ability to see.”

They’d look like a blur to most people. He moved so fast, they’d just be a flash half glimpsed from the corner of somebody’s eye. A blink to clear the blur and they’d be gone. No one could see and no one would know. Her bag with her phone and the alarm buzzer were back at the Angel. Now she was truly on her own. And in just a few minutes, if she survived that long, the fear would kick in with a vengeance. Right now, she could relish its absence, even wonder at herself for the crowing she couldn’t resist.

“No roofs over the river! Even you can’t jump that far! How will you cross to the other side?”

“Like this,” Saloman said, and swooped. The air rushed through her hair, pulling at her skin while the ground leapt to meet her. This time she hid her eyes in his shoulder. But it seemed he had no intention of killing her in so pointless a manner. For an instant they landed on the cobblestones in front of the chain bridge. She opened her eyes, just as he leapt once more. Silenced, she could only gaze in fresh wonder as they bounded from the top of the first stone arch to the next, moving ever closer to the Parliament building on the other side.

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