Talisman by Krystyne Price

Author:Krystyne Price [Price, Krystyne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Bijan!” he heard her cry.

“No,” he ground out, wincing against the unbelievable pain from his shoulder. “Stay away!” If only he had allowed his body more rest on Shinzar, if only he weren’t so exhausted, the blow from the sycophant would not have taken him down this hard.

She didn’t listen and he groaned when she fell to her knees next to him, barely touching his arm and vest with her fingertips. Even with the feather-lightness of it he could tell how hard she was trembling. “Bijan, we’ve got to get you to a hospital,” she said, so quietly he almost didn’t hear her.

“No,” he shook his head, gritting his teeth. He couldn’t be taken to the hospital or the truth of who he was...or at least, who he wasn’t...would be known. “Take me--” He groaned loudly, throwing his head back as blood ran down his arm. “Take me to...your home.”

“But--”

“Now!” he yelled, and when she flinched he could neither blame her nor steady his mind enough to apologize.

Kaia came around to his good arm and helped him stand. “It’s a long way back, Bijan, we’ve got to stem this blood flow if you’re going to make it.”

Their eyes met and even in the dim light he could see the crystal green of hers. He closed his eyes for a moment, fighting to keep his heartbeat steady and his breathing even. “Tourniquet.” When he opened his eyes, it was to find her stripping her shirt off and he gasped. “What are you--?”

“Tourniquet,” she replied, rolling the wet garment up and sliding it through under he armpit of his injured shoulder. “This is going to hurt.”

“It already does!” he spat, and then very nearly howled when she tied it off and yanked it hard to make it as tight as possible. He cursed in his native Shinzarn. And because there was no English translation, she heard it.

“What did you say?” she asked, staring at him like he’d grown a second head.

“Nothing,” he said, “now let’s move before more come.”

“More what? What were those things?”

“Ones sent to kill you,” he replied as they stumbled as fast as they could to the edge of the clearing.

“Kill me?” she asked. “But why?”

Bijan just shook his head and used his good arm to drag her into the woods. They had to get to her car, where he could rest rather than exert himself, and then back to the privacy of her home where he could heal his body. And it had to be soon, or he would bleed out.

They found the path quickly, and began running along it. Bijan guided, keeping as tight of a hold on Kaia’s hand as he could, every step causing him to grunt in pain. But he had to get her out of there, away from the clearing, away from these woods where it had all started so very many of her years ago.

He wasn’t used to water that fell from the sky the way it did here. He simply

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