Hotbloods 3: Renegades by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight
Published: 2018-02-09T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

As I led Navan back into the palace, I realized that an opportunity lay before us. I couldn’t believe it hadn’t come to me sooner. Then again, all we’d been thinking about was getting the information out of Yorrek. Getting the information to Orion had been the next step, a bridge to cross, when we came to it. But now, it seemed the ideal moment had arisen.

“We need to go to the control room,” I whispered to Navan, who was still making a show of being drunk.

He frowned, his face turning serious for a moment. “Now?”

“Not many guards should be there. At the very least, it’ll be a reduced team, considering everyone is at the party,” I explained hurriedly. I was still thinking about the notebook Yorrek had mentioned, which was in the queen’s possession, but that would have to wait. I mean, we didn’t want to feed Orion everything at once. If we did, what further use would we be?

Navan smiled. “I love your mind,” he murmured, kissing me passionately on the lips. For a moment, I wondered if he might actually be drunk.

“We can do this later,” I whispered, pulling away from him.

Navan released me and took my hand with a sigh. “If I didn’t already despise Orion, I’d hate him for his uncanny ability to ruin a romantic moment, even from the other side of the universe.”

We hurried down the network of palace corridors, seeking out a doorway that would lead us down to the queen’s underground control bunker. The secret entrance on the top floor, where Pandora had exerted her impressive might upon the emergency exit, had already been closed back up again. If we busted it open, someone would undoubtedly find it and let the queen know, which was something we couldn’t risk—not after the close call we’d just had. Pandora might not have reported anything suspicious so far, but I doubted she’d be able to ignore a gaping hole in the wall of a palace corridor. No, we were already walking on a knife edge where Brisha was concerned; we needed to tread carefully.

An idea came to me. The wing of the palace that held the ancient galleria, and all the artifacts of the former royals, was abandoned. Nobody went there. Even if we had to kick down a door, we could always cover it up and nobody would notice. A guard doing a routine check would hardly bother to look too closely.

“The old part, with the galleria,” I whispered. “We should check for bunker entrances there.”

“Good idea,” Navan replied as we turned a corner into the main hallway of the palace. Guards were standing around, but they paid us no heed as we passed, evidently expecting us to go up in the elevator to our chambers. By now, our faces were well known in the palace, giving us the freedom to walk around relatively unhindered.

We darted down one of the side corridors, out of sight of the guards. A short while later, we entered the dusty halls of the abandoned wing.

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