The Turncoat King by Michelle Diener

Author:Michelle Diener [Diener, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eclipse
Published: 2021-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

“I see you got your cloak.” Carys fingered the fabric and gave an approving nod.

“I did. Thank you for letting me come as your helper.” She took the bundles Carys had set at her feet and tied them to her mount. “Someone mentioned a trader called Karl. Do you know which one he is, and what he sells?”

“Ask Gregor.” Carys sent her an evil grin. “He’s already deep into his wares.”

Ava turned, and saw one of the traders groaning, hand to his stomach. Wine flasks sat around him.

“A wine merchant?” She frowned. “We haven’t been here long enough for someone to get that drunk, have we?”

Carys shrugged. “Probably went straight there and has been sampling the wares since.”

Ava had a bad feeling about that.

She looked over at Luc, but he had been joined by Massi and Rafe, and wasn’t looking her way.

She made her way to the captain who had escorted them over, and gestured to him to dismount from his horse.

He narrowed his eyes at her, but he knew who she was, and he reluctantly slid down.

She leaned in close to him. “The Commander has cause to be suspicious of the wine merchant in this caravan. And given how sick the trader who has bought from him is, I’m worried that he isn’t drunk, but perhaps poisoned, or has been deliberately given something that is off.”

The captain drew in a sharp breath, and then looked over at where Gregor was heaving up the contents of his stomach.

“Take the traders back, and get Gregor to a healer. Make sure no one touches the wine he’s bought.”

“I don’t take orders from you.” The captain glanced over at Luc.

“Then go confirm your orders with the Commander.” She turned and walked toward Luc herself. She hadn’t got two steps before the captain’s hand came down on her shoulder.

“What you say makes sense. I’ll speak to the Commander later.”

She nodded and kept going.

Luc had managed to rid himself of his companions by the time she reached him, and she thought he would have done it on purpose, to keep what they planned between them.

“It’s the wine merchant. The trader who did business with him is busy heaving up his guts right now, so I wonder whether he thinks to cause us some problems in other ways, too.”

Luc looked over at the traders, and then slid off his horse. “The captain is getting them back to the column.”

“I told him you had cause to be suspicious of the wine merchant, and that the wine might be off, or poisoned.”

“Good.” He turned to the caravan. The traders were packing up. “There’s the wine merchant, at the front of the caravan.”

She saw a large, bluff man with jowled cheeks and hard eyes, and pulled out the fabric she’d used earlier. Added a few things to it.

She didn’t know if it would still work the same way or not, but she thought it safer to boost it.

“I can’t sell you more than I already have. I have to have stock for Fernwell.

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