Heart Of A Warrior by Johanna Lindsey

Author:Johanna Lindsey [Johanna Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Fantasy & Futuristic, Historical, Historical Romance, Romance, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780380814794
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Goodreads: 386488
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2000-12-31T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

THEY CAUTIOUSLY CIRCLED EACH OTHER FOR A FEW MOMENTS. Dalden allowed the break, which was what it was. Jorran was breathing heavily. Sweat beaded his brow, soaked the silk shirt under his armpits, down the center of his back and chest. It was hard work, trying to slice someone to bits. Dalden’s exertion so far had been minimal in comparison.

“Surrender is an option you may want to consider,” Dalden remarked casually.

“Are you offering to do so?” Jorran replied.

“I am not the one losing.”

“Nor am I.”

“Are you not? Warriors learn from witnessing mistakes. Having seen the effectiveness of your razor sword, Falon and I both have trained to deflect it.”

“Practice does not equate to a razor intent on your life,” Jorran smirked.

“True. But nor does your own experience prepare you for a Sha-Ka’ani warrior intent on yours.”

Jorran wasn’t expecting an aggressive move, when Dalden had shown him only defense thus far. Nor were his reflexes quick enough to avoid being lifted and tossed a dozen feet across the room.

Dalden added when he came to stand over Jorran, “Your fight with Falon was not to the death, from his perspective. Have you realized yet, there is a difference?”

This fight wasn’t going to be to the death either, if Dalden could help it, but Jorran didn’t need to know that—yet. And he was furious now. The toss had rattled him. It was not something one did to High Kings, tossing them about like so much refuse. The resulting anger was yet another point in Dalden’s favor.

Jorran rolled away from him, went immediately on the offensive again. It was nearly a blur, the movement of that razor sword now.

It was finally an effort to keep up with the raging razor. Good. The fight had been too easy up till then. And he didn’t want Falon, who was sure to be furious that it was not he facing Jorran here, to feel less able, because his previous fight with Jorran had not been as easy. Of course, Jorran’s advantage then was that Falon had tried to use his heavy sword, while Jorran’s weighed next to nothing. They knew now how to defeat a razor sword.

The anger was Jorran’s downfall. The furious burst of energy it had produced brought him quickly to exhaustion. And the moment his swings slowed down, Dalden made his move to end it.

Instead of just deflecting the next swing, he thrust it away from him, throwing Jorran off balance. In quick succession, he then smashed Jorran’s kneecap with the flat of his own sword, further unbalancing him, and while Jorran was absorbing the shock of that, Dalden disabled him completely by twisting his right arm behind his back until it broke.

It was overkill. At almost anytime during the fight, he could have snatched the contamination shield and let Martha take over. There would have been no punishment in that, though, merely defeat. Jorran deserved more than that. Dalden now ripped the shield from Jorran’s belt and tossed it to Corth II, who smashed the metal in his hands as if it were a wad of paper.

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