Gambit by Kim Knox

Author:Kim Knox [Knox, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2010-11-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

White blazed through the riot of her thoughts and Chae screamed, screamed as the sunder-seld screamed. Garim disintegrated, dissolving into a cloud of gray ash. Her stomach churned and instincts took over. She ran. But not up the wide curve of the steps. She ran toward the guns.

Chae didn’t question where she was going. Her body, her thoughts weren’t her own. She felt the grip of something ancient, something that lived within the heart of the citadel. Eiryn vaporized into a cloud of hot, bitter dust, and fear and anger surged power into her legs. Somehow she knew the man dressed in black leather, his laughter echoing over citadel. Kynon Drew, the head of his House of Enan. He’d desecrated a sacred day and that could not be tolerated—

Like she gave a shit! She fought back against whatever-it-was making her run into the path of Ar-20s, the thing that pumped information into her brain. Thing…Fuck, she would not be controlled by a chair.

She slowed, stumbled and then something jerked to her left. Her pulse spiked. The blur was Daned. His hands grabbed her, took her down and she hit the crystal floor, air bursting from her lungs.

White heat seared above her, striking the crystal floor behind her. Acrid smoke rose through the dust-choked air and Chae had no choice but to pull it into her aching chest. Daned met her gaze, his hard and professional, the one that still protected her…even from herself. She twitched a smile. He winked and that connection eased the wild rush of panic through her veins.

“Stand, House of Ara.”

Chae turned her head and found a pair of heavy leather boots bound in metal only centimeters away from her nose. She should’ve known. Since when would she get to have sex with the richest man in the quadrant? No, her luck had drained away as usual.

Daned pulled her to her feet and she rubbed at her chest. The press of his strong fingers around hers warmed her, eased the manic thud of her heart and pushed the sunder-seld’s shrieking to a dull roar at the back of her skull.

Her gaze flicked over the leader of the Enan. Tall and thin like his representative, Corryn, he had a hard, sharp face. Her mouth twitched. His genes had not been kind to him. She met his dark gaze and found it soulless. Yes, he would happily take them all to the slaughter as the Host. She straightened her shoulders, ignoring the cold chill the word brought with it. She smirked. If she was going to die, then her last act would be an annoying one. “So…you think you can control a really pissed-off chair?”

Kynon’s gloved hand swung too fast for her to duck, and it impacted her jaw, snapping her head back. Daned surged forward, but the increased whine and the sudden clack and creak of too many Ar-20s pointed at their heads stopped him.

Chae spat blood onto the crystal floor, pain still ballooning through her skull. “Interesting conversational technique.

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