Dagger by Emma Savant

Author:Emma Savant [Savant, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Mom sliced through the last length of zucchini like it was the neck of someone who’d pissed her off. I threw my minced garlic in the pan and spun around to face her as the sound of sizzling filled the kitchen.

“I’m not going to back down on this.”

“How exactly do you think it’s going to look if you break the future Stiletto’s arm and then I let you go on a mission in her place? You’re my daughter.”

“Sienna’s your niece.”

She slid the zucchini into the pan and checked the oven. The crescent rolls inside were almost perfect, pale golden brown but not quite done. She closed the door again.

“You need me,” I said. “I’m the only one who’s been all the way to the den, and you can’t go in there missing one of your crew.”

“I absolutely can.”

“Mom.”

“Scarlett.”

She turned to face me, resting her back against the counter’s edge.

“If I agree to let you come with us, there are conditions,” she said, a warning in her voice. “You have to stay back with the rear guard. You will be there exclusively so we can put Grandma on your bike and get her out faster.”

“Done,” I said, holding up both hands. “Anything you say.” I frowned. “Wait, I thought you were bringing her out on a broom.”

“I’m not sure she’ll be in a condition to stay on a broom by the time we get there.”

“You think they’ve been hurting her?”

Mom’s face stayed placid, but I knew her heart was swarming with the same anxieties that had been plaguing me. She had to be.

“We don’t know anything about her conditions except what your divinations have told us,” Mom said. “She’s still alive and she’s still at the den.” She shrugged. “We need to be prepared for anything.”

“A good Dagger always is.”

Mom gave me a slight smile, then handed me a cluster of tomatoes.

“Wash and chop. The zucchini’s already half soft.”

Alec sent me a message after dinner. The next clasp was ready, and he’d drop it off at Carnelian tomorrow.

Scarlett: Thanks. I won’t be in tomorrow, so please leave it at the desk again.

I silently prayed that Grandma would be home to see the clasp when I did. I just wanted her home, safe and sound, and back at Carnelian with her dreams of a palace contract intact. That had been our reality just days ago. It seemed like another lifetime—one I wanted back.

I spent the next two days training: working out in the gym, sparring with Rowan, and performing so many tarot and tea leaf readings that the symbols all began to swirl together in my head.

This wasn’t how I’d planned to spend these few days. But then, nothing about the past few months had gone how I’d planned. I had always assumed I would become the next Stiletto, and then Sienna had been chosen. I had tried to be the best Dagger I could be, and my initiation had come months after everyone else’s. I had tried to quit the Daggers

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