Revelations by Ella Summers

Author:Ella Summers [Summers, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Published: 2015-09-10T23:00:00+00:00

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523AX July 26, Red Castle

LEONIDAS PATCHED DARREN up as best he could for the moment, but they had to get back to the SIN office in town. And fast. Unfortunately, there were five kilometers of forest terrain sitting between them and proper medical treatment, and Darren was already bleeding through his bandages. They trudged on, Darren’s face set in stubborn determination. He was going to make it back. And if Leonidas’s own thoughts were any indication, he was also going to make that trigger-happy brat suffer.

Hours later, Darren was resting on the reclining hospital bench in the SIN office. His eyes were closed, but from the way he was breathing, Leonidas knew he was still awake. He just didn’t want to talk to anyone. Not now. He’d nearly lost his voice screaming profanities at the top of his lungs at the doctor and his nurses as they extracted a very stubborn bullet. Leonidas’s ears were still burning, from both the sheer volume of Darren’s booming bass and from the images his explicitly detailed curses evoked. He had never thought of his friend as having such a depraved mind, but then again, he’d never seen Darren being tortured by a pair of forceps and a bullet that just didn’t want to go out.

You would have been cursing them and the wombs that had borne them too, Leonidas told himself. He nodded. It was hard to argue with yourself.

About the time Darren got tired of pretending to sleep, the door opened and Forester tromped in, glowering like he had been the one shot. Then again, he always looked like that. The head of the Red Castle office of the Selpe Intelligence Network was old, fat, and downright cranky. He was also a SIN legend. Every SIN office had a board decked with glamourous shots of the most decorated agents in the network’s history, and Forester was on it. He was younger, thinner, suaver…and actually smiling. If his boss’s name hadn’t been on the plaque beneath the photo, Leonidas never would have believed that grinning agent to be the same person as the scowling man who was his boss.

“You two have landed yourselves in a reeking pile of muck,” Forester said without preface.

Leonidas exchanged glances with Darren, who turned even paler than he already was. Massive blood loss would do that to you.

“Rylan Timberland has told his father that you two shot at him,” Forester continued, his teeth scraping together as he spoke the name of the territory’s ruling family.

Leonidas looked pointedly at Darren’s bandages. The doctor had done a decent job of patching him up, but even so, they were speckled with blood.

Their boss’s fuzzy eyebrows scrunched together like a pair of mating caterpillars. “Rylan and about a dozen witnesses claim he shot at you in self-defense after he was attacked.”

“A dozen ‘witnesses’ who worship the ground he walks on,” countered Leonidas.

Darren looked too tired to speak, but he nodded his head in rigorous agreement. Leonidas, on the other hand, was too tired to keep his mouth shut.

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