Ronin's Return by Elle James

Author:Elle James [James, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626950894
Publisher: STORY INK LLC
Published: 2017-10-23T18:30:00+00:00

Ronin ripped the mask from his face and ran, pushing and shoving his way through the crowd. Twice he thought he’d found the jester, and twice he’d been wrong. The colors in the costume weren’t right. They needed to be purple and green, not orange and red or yellow and blue.

He was about to give up and return to Isabella and her father when he spotted a man wearing the green and purple pantaloons he’d seen on the jester who’d attacked Marcus Pisano. The man had shed the jacket and wore a white shirt. He’d ditched the headdress he’d been wearing somewhere along the way, leaving his head bare but for a dark swath of hair.

He glanced over his shoulder again and again, while running toward the north entrance.

With the majority of the revelers occupied at the center of the square, the crowd thinned on the northern edge.

Ronin raced after the attacker, dodging women in voluminous dresses and men in big hats.

The jester ducked down an alley, disappearing into the shadows.

Determined to capture the man who’d stabbed Isabella’s father, Ronin burst free of the throng and ran full out, charging into the alley, wishing he held his M4A1 rifle. The only weapons he had were his hands, but he’d do whatever it took to stop the man from harming Isabella and her family. With drums pounding, cymbals clanging and music blasting through loudspeakers behind him, Ronin blocked out the noise and focused on his target.

Coming from the bright Italian sunshine to the darkness of the alley didn’t give Ronin’s vision time to adjust. He couldn’t see anything but the archway at the end.

He didn’t want to lose his target in the twists and turns of the maze-like alleyways and canals. Ronin shot ahead, racing through a tunnel of darkness to the opening at the end and nearly plunged over the edge of a drop-off into a canal. He stopped short, teetering on the lip of a landing his hands going up to catch the arched bricks overhead. When he had his balance, he dropped his arms and took stock of where he was.

The tunnel ended at the canal. The only way out was by boat or swimming.

He caught a glimpse of the tail of a motor boat rounding the next corner in the canal. The man he’d been chasing hadn’t had time to start a boat, much less get to the next corner in the short moments before Ronin arrived. But he could have had someone there waiting for him.

If only Ronin had a boat to follow.

Leaning out, he peered over the edge in case there was a ledge beneath where he was standing. No boat, but at that exact moment, a body floated to the surface of the murky canal water.

Ronin jumped back, his heart leaping into his throat. Holy hell, the man he’d been chasing lay face down in the water, his green and purple pants barely visible beneath the surface.

“What the hell?” Ronin shrugged out of the

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