The Healer Series: The Complete Set, Books 1-4 by Anaya C.J

Author:Anaya, C.J [Anaya, C.J]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: C.J Anaya Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

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I’d barely crept into my bedroom without anyone the wiser when I heard a knocking at my door. It was well past midnight. I couldn’t fathom what might be so important at this hour.

Yao and Chan were on the other side with grim looks painted across their features.

“Mistress, your father has sent several guards to escort you to his quarters.”

I looked at them in puzzlement. “At this hour? Why send so many when it only ever takes two?”

Yao gave me a meaningful look. “I heard that one of his men of high rank has been seriously injured and is in need of your services.”

I’d suspected my father might summon me soon, I just hadn’t expected it to happen tonight. I hadn’t had enough time to rest from my earlier healing or my emotionally draining interlude with Musubi. I had every intention of fulfilling my mission, but I didn’t know if I possessed the strength necessary at the moment.

Katsu wouldn’t condone such abuse to my power. Knowing the emperor, he must have found a way to work around my betrothed.

I glanced past Yao and Chan. Awaiting just outside the door were a handful of soldiers. I didn’t generally talk to any of them let alone make eye contact, but their numbers alarmed me.

“Surely it is not necessary for so many guards to escort me to my father’s quarters,” I said to the one in front, who looked as if he might be in charge.

His eyes widened momentarily at my breach of etiquette. “You will follow us, Princess.”

I stepped forward and was accosted on either side by a stoic looking guard. I felt Yao and Chan’s worried eyes upon me. None of my father’s men touched me, but I could almost feel their hands pushing me forward as we began the long journey through the different palace halls to my father’’s area of business. Upon entering, the doors were shut closed behind me, and an awful caged feeling threatened my composure.

My father stood next to a long window adorned with gold, silk curtains. The faint moonlight streaming through the window might have made him look angelic if I hadn’t had so many years of experience negating that impression. I waited. Any comments or questions I posed would not be well received.

After a few moments he spoke, continuing to face the open window as he did so. “Being a woman, I doubt you can grasp, nay, appreciate the amount of resources it takes to wage a war against an entire empire that is poised to turn on you in an instant.” He swiveled around to face me, eyes flashing and a ghastly smile adorning his wicked features.

I remained silent. I did nothing to defend myself as a woman, and I chose to ignore the impulse to tell him his subjects wouldn’t be so keen to overthrow the empire if he had had the decency to take care of them in the first place. A mess of his own making, but he would never see it that way.

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