Honor Bound by Moira Rogers

Author:Moira Rogers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Freebie

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They were still twenty yards from his first trap when the scent on the wind told him it wasn’t empty. He stopped and held up a hand, his fist closed, and tried to listen to the sounds of the forest around him.

She sucked in a quiet breath, and the soft sound of her blade sliding against leather broke the tense silence. Her hand landed on his shoulder, and she pointed with her knife to the pit and then beyond, to the other side of the path. “A trap of their own,” she whispered.

If they were there, they were good enough to be silent. He studied the pit for a few moments, mapping the territory around it in his mind. Then he nodded. “Circle around. Two minutes.”

She crept around him and disappeared into the brush.

He counted his steady heartbeats and waited, straining his ears for some hint of her passage. She moved through the woods with the skill of a trained tracker, any noise she made covered in the creaking of ancient pines and the sound of the wind in the trees.

When he’d given her enough time to move into place he started forward again, his feet finding a silent path through the brush without thought. A muffled, choked noise drew his attention, and a woman sprang out of the shadows, two knives glinting in the moonlight.

He dodged the first blade by wrenching his body out of the way as he reached for her other wrist, adrenaline making it easy to summon the strength he held back most of the time. The bones in her wrist snapped. She dropped her knife and hissed in pain but didn’t scream, and a sharp jerk brought her free hand up. The edge of her blade caught his shoulder, a scratch more than anything, and he waste no more time. His own small dagger slid into his grasp, the hilt a cool, comforting weight in his hand, and he wrenched her off balance and dragged the blade across her throat without preamble.

The demon dropped to the ground, already dead, and Orion jerked his head in the direction of the pit as a shot rang out. He left the demon on the ground and launched himself toward the path.

Amaia stood over the pit, the borrowed gun in her hand. He skidded to a stop a few feet away and glanced at her. “The third one?”

“Marko.” She lowered her arm and tilted her head. “You’re bleeding.”

He shook his head to dismiss her concern. “Marko’s the one in the pit, or Marko’s still out there?”

“There’s no one out there.” A tiny shiver ran through her. “One in the trap, two to lie in wait for an ambush. Three dead.”

So she’d killed two of them. “Six left.”

Amaia tore her gaze away from the pit, her eyes tormented. “Go home, Orion.”

“No.”

She tested the barrel of the gun and shoved it back into her waistband. Anger vibrated off of her, and she avoided his eyes as she stomped around the pit and down the path.

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