The Fighter by Elin Peer

Author:Elin Peer [Peer, Elin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

Sparring with the Ruler

Raven

I had told Leo to keep our night together a secret. But the next day at work it felt like he was shouting to the whole station that we’d slept together. Four times he smiled at me across the room and each time colleagues frowned at the unexpected change in his behavior.

“You have to be grumpier,” I whispered in a warning when I passed him in the hallway.

“Why?”

“Because they’ll know something is different if you aren’t your usual grumpy self.”

Leo just grinned and walked away with a whistle. Later I saw him in a meeting with the top boss at Station Seven. The old captain looked like he was chronically annoyed, so I’d always stayed as far away from him as I could. Rumor had it that he was friends with the demon headmaster from the police academy who had made my life miserable for an entire year. That alone made me avoid him. I didn’t need more powerful enemies in my life when I was already struggling with how to approach the most powerful man in the country.

It was Leo who had suggested that I find a way to interview Khan. Of course, he had said it this morning after we had woken up early to enjoy a fourth round of sex, and so we had both been lightheaded and full of endorphins when I agreed that it was a great idea.

Now it seemed like a dangerous plan. Not only was Khan the ruler of the country but he was an exceptionally sharp individual with a gift of getting people to tell him things that were secret. What if he didn’t know that he wasn’t Marcus’ son and I accidentally told him?

I wanted information from Khan, but I didn’t want to give him any information from the case yet.

The whole day, I thought about the best way to approach Khan and get him to squeeze me into his busy schedule. He was a good friend of my father and I’d known him since I was a child, but I needed more than a friendly conversation with him. When I made it back to the Gray Manor, I was determined to at least give it a try; and to pump myself up, I did fifty push-ups before I went to Khan’s office that afternoon. My plan was quickly crushed when his assistant stopped me and informed me that the Ruler was in a meeting.

Changing my strategy, I got up extra early the next day and was in the dining room at ten to six when Pearl and Khan came in for breakfast.

“Good morning dear.” Pearl kissed me on my forehead and Khan gave me a nod as he steered to the breakfast buffet and asked:

“What has you up so early?”

Already sitting at the dining table with a plate of food and a glass of juice in front of me, I smiled. “I’m waiting for Magni.”

“Magni – why?” Khan reached for an apple and threw it from one hand to the other.

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