The Black Dragon: A Claire-Agon Dragon Book (Dragon Series 1) by Mercer Salvador

Author:Mercer, Salvador [Mercer, Salvador]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Diamond Star Publishing
Published: 2015-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

Markus also heard the alarm, but he was already awake. He was in the inner sanctum, sitting on the same cold slab of marble that Olivia had laid on earlier that day. He had ordered the servants out of the temple proper, and had restricted them to the housing section of the temple itself until further notice.

He had no idea how he was going to appease the forces that he was dealing with. He was fairly certain that somehow the Kesh were working with Lady Gemma to expose the façade that the nobles had thrust upon the citizenry of Ulatha. How and why Gemma would work against her cousin he did not know. He could not understand completely, but if the rumors were true, then she held no great love for the duke and thought her own family of Vandersot should have been crowned decades ago, when her grandfather passed away and left the duchy’s crown to the Tors instead of her family.

By Agon how he hated politics, and now this. He had returned from his argument with the Lady Gemma’s spy, only to find the inner sanctum empty. He went immediately to Olivia’s alcove and found her belongings missing. No one spoke of the matter, and he instantly had his hand, Thomas, bar the gates to the sanctum and gave orders for her “rest” to not be disturbed.

The rabble outside was another problem altogether. Their newly found devotion to Olivia now bordered not only on the fanatical but also on the blasphemous. Astor was the deity here whom they were to worship, but the group that came from Kero Swamp seemed to miss that point as they waited for Olivia to awaken and . . . And what exactly? Markus thought to himself. What was it that they were expecting from the prefect’s daughter?

Her appointment was only a sham to appease the nobles, and he didn’t tell the Supreme Patriarch that he had initiated Olivia expecting her to “disappear” and he would close the matter. Markus was promised that Olivia would not be hurt and would instead be spirited away to the Eastern Realms, keeping her outside the influence of the Ulathan nobles.

He was betrayed.

No, they weren’t going to keep their word, and now it became clear that for some reason they wanted her dead. He knew not what secret they wanted kept, but she played some kind of role in that. He did the best he could now and his plan was to have kept her sedated until he could appease them and find a way out of this web of deceit. A way that did not involve his head set upon a spike outside of the town or, worse, at the entrance to the Grand Temple in Utandra.

Oh, Supreme Patriarch Torwell could be a gentle man, but conspiring to murder a member of the order, sham or not, was grounds for a divine cleansing of the highest level, which involved the bloodletting of the sinner to the

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