The Bastard's Bargain by Katee Robert

Author:Katee Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Keira lasted an hour. Sixty minutes before she went a little mad wondering what Dmitri had found. Or if it was a trap. If Keira were in Alethea’s situation, she would have guessed that Dmitri wouldn’t sit idly by. He might not be as superhuman as she used to believe, but he was still very, very good at what he did.

She just hadn’t expected…loyalty.

She flung herself down onto the couch in the library and picked up the book she’d left there a few days ago, before setting it down again. She wasn’t settled enough to read right now. She kept playing the look on Dmitri’s face when he spoke about Mikhail. They weren’t friends exactly—she got the impression that Dmitri didn’t have much in the way of friends—but it genuinely grieved him to think of his man at Mae’s mercy.

The temptation rose to call him, but whatever he was doing, he didn’t need the distraction. So she called Charlie instead.

She answered on the second ring. “Hey, stranger.”

“Hey.” Now that she had her on the phone, she didn’t know what to say. They’d only had two weeks together after Aiden brought Charlie home, and it wasn’t like there was a ton of history to pull from. Maybe I should have called Carrigan. But she didn’t trust her sister’s anger at Dmitri. If Carrigan thought for a second that she’d get away with it, she wouldn’t hesitate to send Halloran men down here to snatch Keira and bring her home, and to hell with the consequences.

“Keira?”

She snapped back to the present. What was she doing? She didn’t normally mentally wander in spirals. “Hey.” Shit, she’d already said that.

“Is everything okay?” Charlie took a deep breath and but seemed to reconsider before she offered an escape plan. Again.

Get your head on straight. Everyone is freaking the fuck out and you’re not helping with this space case shit. “Yeah, things are fine. I’m just bored and I was wondering what you were up to.”

“Ah. That, I know all too well.” Someone spoke in the background and Charlie must have moved away from them, because the sounds got quieter and then disappeared altogether. “Is he letting you keep going with Krav Maga?”

“He doesn’t have a choice.” She rolled onto her side and stared at the doorway to the library as if she could will Dmitri back safely. “We’ve talked about it, and he said he’d found a gym, but shit keeps hitting the fan, and my actually going keeps getting pushed back.” And rightfully so. Her restlessness was less important than the safety of Dmitri’s people, but that didn’t mean she was handling it any better. “I guess there’s stuff I could be doing in the meantime, but I don’t even know where to start.”

“That, I can help with. Hit me with your e-mail address, and I’ll send you over a few options for training plans to get your endurance and strength up. You’ll still feel like you were hit with a truck for the first couple weeks, but it’ll help.

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