Heart of a Mercenary [Daughters of Lyra Series] by Felicity Heaton

Author:Felicity Heaton [Heaton, Felicity]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-12T14:48:44.033000+00:00

Chapter 7

Kosen stretched in the cramped compartment and frowned

as he slowly came around from a nightmare-filled sleep. His

eyes shot wide, sleep driven from him when he saw that Miali

wasn't with him. He rushed to his feet and opened the

curtain. Relief flooded him when he saw Miali crouching with

some children in a small open area near their compartment,

playing a game that he recognised from his youth. She didn't

seem to care that the children she was playing with were

Minervan.

She didn't seem to care that he was Minervan.

She didn't seem to care about the things that he had done.

He watched her playing, studying the graceful way that

she moved. She seemed so out of place in this area of the

ship, but at home at the same time. The dull grey expansive

room was packed with Minervans and the occasional other

species. It was clearly a ship that had passed through the

port rather than originated at it. He couldn't imagine that

most of the passengers here had come from the port or

anywhere near it.

Miali looked up and smiled at him before going back to

playing with the children, moving the black pebbles around on

the green and blue diamonds on the board. The children

laughed at her mistake. Kosen leaned against the doorway of

their compartment, smiling as he watched her intentionally

lose.

"Miali." Kosen tilted his chin up when he said her name.

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She said something to the children and then placed a little

girl in her position at the board and came over to him. It was

strange to see her like this after he had only known her as a

captive. He hadn't imagined that she would be so friendly to

Minervans, or that she was so amiable. It made her even

more beautiful.

It was little wonder that she was an ambassador. She

certainly had a knack for convincing people to do the right

thing and get along, and she had an amazing capacity for

forgiveness. He didn't deserve such forgiveness. He didn't

deserve her.

"I was bored," she said with a small shy smile, as though

confessing she had done something bad. "You were sleeping

and I saw no harm in it."

"They seem to like you," he said and nodded towards the

children. She looked over at them with a fond smile, watching

them play. His gaze remained on her, drinking in her beauty

and the warmth that she radiated.

"They were teaching me the finer points of cheating at

Loretsil. I don't think I have the art but perhaps I'll beat my

brothers next time we play."

"Brothers?" He frowned at the mention of her family. He

knew little about them, only her name and that she was

royalty.

Royalty.

She didn't act at all as he had imagined one would. She

had no pretentions and airs. She seemed happy to be

amongst common people in the lowest possible class on a

public transport freighter.

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"Yes. They're both in the Lyran Imperial Army. It wasn't to

my taste so I became an ambassador instead. I didn't want

danger and adventure like they craved. I seemed to have

found myself mixed up in it after all though.

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