Heart of a Mercenary by Felicity Heaton

Author:Felicity Heaton [Heaton, Felicity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Science Fiction
Publisher: Alinar Publishing
Published: 2011-02-27T00:00:00+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.

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.

"Yes. They're both in the Lyran Imperial Army. It wasn't to my taste so I became an ambassador instead.

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