Dark Huntress by Nia Night

Author:Nia Night [Night, Nia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-09T22:00:00+00:00

14

“You do realize, if we do this, and we’re caught, they’ll kill us both. No one will ever find our bodies.”

The Angel shut the book and placed it on the table beside him. He’d turned his chair to face mine, even though I was still angled toward the windows. Scooting to the edge of his seat, he stared at me with those intense blue eyes.

“We should probably try not to get caught, then,” he replied.

“The place is a fortress, Kieran. I couldn’t even get away with sneaking to the kitchens in the middle of the night. None of us could get away with anything. It’s a place of discipline, rigid obedience, unfaltering rules. In the nearly six hundred years it has been in existence, there has never been a breach. If the child is indeed at the Academy, she’s already beyond reach.”

“We set our own limitations. They are what we make them.” he said.

I shook my head, let out a slow breath. “You don’t understand.”

“You’re right, I don’t.” He took my hands. His fingers were calloused, but warm and strong. I should have pulled away. The Code itself demanded I pull away. I didn’t. “But you do understand, Iliana,” he added. “With your help, I think it is possible.”

“And if we do manage to retrieve her, then what? What do you plan on doing with the child? Where will you take her? What will you do?”

“At ten years old, Vida has had three guardians up until this point,” he said. “The first lasted only three months. People came for her in the night, and the guardian was compromised while protecting her. The next was with her for the following six years. She was a diligent protector to the child, a skilled and sharp female. Again, they were found, and those who’d like to pull the tide of the future toward their means came for the child. The second guardian escaped with the child, but later died of wounds she sustained. The third guardian, Elias, was with her for the following four years, and you were present during the end of that one.”

I flashed back to the event in the park, when I’d stood by and let the Accursed kill Elias in front of Vida. I hadn’t known any of this at the time, and had been slated to kill Elias myself, but I wondered how things would have been different if I had jumped in. It didn’t matter. If I’d saved or refused to kill Elias that night, I would have had to answer to the Superiors, and that would have been a whole other path of nonsense.

“I think maybe a better question is what side is the Sisterhood on,” I said.

When Kieran only looked at me, I continued. “Elias was a Mark, meaning someone hired me to kill the child’s guardian. Unless the Superior Sisters wanted the child for themselves, but that doesn’t make sense, because the Sisterhood is an independent agent. We’re contract killers. Why get involved in

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