Raider by Justine Davis

Author:Justine Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BelleBooks Inc.
Published: 2017-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

HE RECOVERED SO quickly that had she not seen that instant when he’d tried to hide the cut from the splinter, Kye might have doubted herself.

But she had seen it, and she knew that she’d been right.

“What?” he said, with the perfect puzzled look on his face.

“You heard me.”

“I did. But I don’t know what you mean by it.”

The Drake she’d known had not been such a smooth liar. But the Drake she’d known was indeed gone, but not in the way she’d thought. He hadn’t been replaced by the broken man who had made her wonder at herself because she still cared for him.

He’d been replaced by a man who’d led an incredible, impossible double life for years. Who had carried it off so well that no one suspected, that everyone believed that somehow Drake Davorin had become the antithesis of his fiery father and bold, enchanting mother, while the Raider had risen out of nowhere, with no one knowing his true origins, to lead the fighters of Ziem with the best traits of them both.

She stared at him. “You’re really going to hold to it?”

“I need this map. The biggest operation we’ve ever mounted depends on it.”

“And if I were to say I won’t do it until you tell me the truth?”

For a moment he met her gaze. “You will not. This battle means as much to you as it does to me.”

The accuracy of his words took some of the fire out of her. And now that she stared at his eyes, knowing, it seemed impossible that she hadn’t guessed long before. For while the color, that clear, sky-blue was typical on mist-shrouded Ziem, that dark rim around the iris was rarer. Yet what had seemed merely striking in Drake was overwhelming in the Raider, and she wondered how the same eyes could seem so different. But then she realized it was because the two roles were so different, and the new Drake, the one that made her heart ache, rarely met anyone’s gaze anymore.

“Which role is the hardest to play?” she asked softly.

Something flashed in those eyes, again only for an instant. But she knew she’d seen it.

“The map,” he repeated.

She drew in a deep breath, let it out slowly. “All right,” she finally said. “For now,” she added, warning him this was far from over.

“You know how soon I need it.”

“You will have it.”

And then I will have my answers.

DRAKE LOCKED THE door of the taproom after a long day, with another long night to follow. The raid tonight was to be on the supply depot, and he hoped to liberate enough food to keep them going another month, and with luck, enough to spread among the people of Zelos. While one of their great advantages was that they were not tied to supply lines in the way the Coalition was, knowing the territory and hunting, supplementing their stores with liberated Coalition supplies, meant his men were stronger, more fit than they could ever be with the sparse rations.

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