Legends and Liars by Knight Julia

Author:Knight, Julia [Knight, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Fantasy / Historical, Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2015-11-10T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Alicia glowered at the quivering man who’d drawn the short straw and had to report to her, but like much else the glower was false.

“They disappeared, milady. An army is a fine place for a few soldiers to hide. We’ll keep looking but I don’t hold out much hope.”

She waved a blood-streaked arm at him and he left, looking grateful that he was still alive.

Vocho and Kacha turning up just then had been a fortuitous happenstance, and she wasn’t going to waste it. And Dom… A faint thrill at that. All right, more than faint. Years she’d been searching for him. Years. All that messing about with Kacha and Vocho, hoping he’d turn up to help them had paid off. Now she’d found him, and for a moment there she’d almost had him, had what all this was about. Would have done if not for that annoying Vocho. Still, he was close and wouldn’t get far, not if she had anything to do with it. She had unfinished business with the Domenech, but Esti was going to help her there, with the three of them if she could. And if not, well, one more thing for Eneko to deal with.

Ah yes. Eneko. With Sabates dead, Alicia felt free of every constraint from the last twenty years. He’d always held her back from what she wanted, counselled patience, patience. And she’d been patient, but Dom turning up and Eneko plotting with Sabates… too much to resist. The time for patience was gone. Now was the time to get what she wanted. Besides, she had all this blood going spare.

It was the work of moments to lay out a circle of blood on the table, to fine-tune it to where she wanted–Eneko’s rooms. And there he was, busy over some poor bastard in that chair. Not so busy he didn’t respond to the circle. It was still working well enough, so she suspected he’d been topping up the blood, probably by way of whoever was the focus of his attentions with the knife in his hand.

“Alicia,” he said warily and put down the knife. “Where’s Sabates? He said he’d contact—”

“He’s not going to be contacting anyone now or ever. Now you have me to deal with.” She let that sink in, amused as he tried his utmost to hide his feelings at the news. Tried and failed. She’d spent a lifetime studying people in order to manipulate them all the better, and he couldn’t fool her. “Come closer and take a good look, Eneko. See if you don’t know me.”

A frown at that. “Of course I know you; you’re Sabates’ assistant.”

She let herself smile at that dismissive thought. “Was, Eneko. Was. And not just his assistant. Oh, I am so much more than an assistant. I was his student; I am now his better, his successor, his killer. Look closely. Think back. Remember letters you received and ignored or were dismissive of, laughed at. A desperate woman you turned away from your gates rather than admit any wrongdoing, and not just once.

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