The Foul Mouth and the Mancy Martial Artist (King Henry Tapes Book 5) by Richard Raley

Author:Richard Raley [Raley, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-21T05:00:00+00:00

“You really should watch the fight, King Henry,” Isabel told me.

I ignored her just like I had for the last five minutes.

It was weird having Hope Hunting smile at me. Worse . . . have an expression like she wanted me to spread her legs and pump away, tied up as a prisoner or not. Hope would never be in my fan club. If only for me being the main reason she and Welf weren’t together. Although that was kind of a mixed batch. I could still remember the sound of tears and walking towards it.

“Go away!” she’d screamed at me when she saw who it was.

“Sorry, Hope, but the truth had to be told,” I had said.

“I’m not crying about that,” she screamed back in my face. “I don’t know what I’m supposed to be now! So I’m crying! And I’m happy about it! I don’t want to be made! I don’t want to be a thing!”

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Women, right?

Okay, okay. Stop picking up rotten vegetables, ladies.

Seeing Hope’s thighs. Weird. Only got to see those things when she had a bathing suit on and you never dared leer or watch her too long without moving along. If you did, you got your balls frozen stiff.

Not that this is Hope in the least, no matter what she looks like, no matter how she sounds.

“He’s coming out first!” Welf called just as some generic rap music hit and the crowd popped with cheers.

You could hear the announcer through the glass. “Coming to you from Memphis, Tennessee!”

I wanted to watch it all. But I couldn’t. Had to be vigilant. Had to be the paranoid one. Had to keep an eye on the Facechanger. “Working for the Vamps?” I asked her. “Divine Inanina maybe?”

“You should watch the fight, King Henry,” was the only response I got.

Didn’t really blame the others. Vicky can be tough when she needs to be, but this will never be her thing. T-Bone works best from a distance. Welf . . . guess he don’t need to be right there, long as his Construct is close by. Autumn. The season just before everything dies. Had to guess that there was a Spring, Summer, and Winter too. Moira von Welf was supposed to be a genius Bonegrinder only equaled by Mordecai Root. Maximus, if Vicky told the truth.

Why shouldn’t she have four of her own Constructs?

But could she do more? Or was the almost fifty Root had in Eresha’s lair the work of a team of Bonegrinders? Didn’t have any answers. More mysteries like all the rest and if you think Artificers are secretive, Bonegrinders are the worst. Treat their discipline like it’s religion.

Must have pissed Welf off for his mom to come down so hard on his first Construct. I remembered it from the Asylum. Seemed like a dead person with wide-black marks on his skin . . . like someone had taken a calligraphy brush to a corpse. Autumn’s markers were thinner and more spread out in a web. It

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