Revenge Hunter (The Rover series Book 3) by Amelia Shaw

Author:Amelia Shaw [Shaw, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy
Publisher: Tamsin Baker
Published: 2021-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Despite the promise in Fin’s eyes throughout breakfast, I found my strength waning. I had enough time to grab the weapons the Captain brought for me and then hobble up to the bedroom Fin had prepared. Guards still lined the hallways, but they were fewer than when I’d first arrived, if the traipsing up and down the hallway while I’d tried to sleep was any sign.

The hallway outside my room was deserted. My door stood ajar, but it should have been closed.

I stretched my sides back and forth and wrapped my hand around the knife jutting from the edge of my boot. It wasn’t as if I was scared of being in Fin’s palace, but when Fin had yelled at me, he’d had a point. I couldn’t walk into anything blindly anymore and assume I’d come out on the other side alive.

It would seem almost dying twice in the same week had finally given me some perspective. Or, perhaps I never wanted Fin to have to escort me to the bathroom again in my lifetime.

I pushed the door open, scanning left and right as I revealed more of the room. A rustle came from near my bed, and I crept across the room towards the sound. In front of my bed, ruffling through the pockets of a leather jacket that looked like the one the surgical team cut off me, was a soldier. One I recognized.

Damn it. Why was it always the ones I trusted that betrayed me? I took the knife out and kept it tucked up along my wrist. He thrust my jacket across the bed in disgust.

He did the same to the rest of the clothes, not even noticing me standing behind him watching. When he finished with my belongings, he ripped the bedding out from under the mattress and tore the pillows out of their covers.

He huffed and cast the pillows to the floor. Finally, he spun around to where I stood in the middle of the room with a smile on my face.

“You know it’s customary to wait for an invitation before you rummage around a woman’s bed.”

His shoulders sank back, and by the look on his face, he knew I’d caught him. “Any chance I can talk my way out of this?”

I crossed my arms over my chest. “No, but you can help yourself. Tell me what you’re looking for.”

It wasn’t hard to figure out what he’d been hunting for, but he must not be very smart if he didn’t expect I’d locked it up the second I got here. Unless he thought I didn’t have a chance with my injuries.

His usually perfectly quaffed Captain America hair looked a little mussed today. Even his black-on-black uniform wasn’t quite up to the usual standard.

“Rough day?”

He narrowed his eyes. “Don’t act like you know me. You don’t even know my name, so don’t pretend you care.”

“I never said I did. You just look a little flustered is all. We can chat about it, because you’re not walking out of here, no matter what you do.

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