The Warrior Victorious by Sharon Green

Author:Sharon Green [Green, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780886772642
Google: U5_k5xEHcHQC
Publisher: Sharon Green Books
Published: 1988-09-15T05:46:04+00:00

Chapter 11

"Stop bothering me," I said for what seemed like the ten-thousandth time, finding it impossible to keep the annoyance out of my voice. "If you're trying to find the limits of my self-control, be smart and take my word for the fact that you're almost there."

"It's very bad manners to be so high-handed with people who are only trying to help you," Ashton came back, her own annoyance reaching for the heights mine had already achieved. "The doctor said you're doing a lot better than he'd expected you to, but you should still be taking it easy, preferably in bed.

Instead of that you've been wandering all over the transport, and now you insist on going down in the slip with Murdock. Why can't you wait the hour or two until we're home?"

"From what you people yourselves have told me, Murdock can't be trusted to be alone with Rimilians," I returned, looking down at the bland expressionlessness of the subject of my comments with very little friendliness. "If he is left alone with them, he seems to get this overwhelming urge to sell things-like me, for instance. I'm just going along to make sure it doesn't happen again."

"But my brother can't sell you again," Ashton pointed out with a purr while Murdock used one finger to rub gently at his lips, trying to keep the amusement off his face. "You belong to someone else now, so if there's any selling to be done Murdock won't have a part in it. What if we promise to let you know the instant any deals are concluded?"

"That's very funny," I said with no expression at all, staring unblinkingly at her grin. "And also please accept my congratulations. You've just put yourself one step away from being on my "flatten first" list, right along with the ones who run the complex on New Dawn. 1 didn't think I'd find anyone outside the Amalgamation government with enough talent to achieve that."

I turned away from them both with that, and went to sit in a chair by myself until the transfer slip was ready for boarding. Murdock had a couple of men hovering a short distance away who would take over Ashton's job of helping him for a while, but that didn't mean Ashton had no intentions of going along with him. The slip would be landing in the courtyard of the palace in the city of Vediaster, and Murdock had said something about considering it prudent if he had a woman with him.

The steward materialized in front of me with a tray holding cups of kimla, but a shake of my head continued him on his way to the others in the common area.

I was no more in the mood for eating and drinking than I'd been for the last few days, and as was becoming usual, as soon as I stopped thinking of other things and talking to other people, my mind began working on its own. I not only had what I'd been

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