Vanished by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evangeline Anderson Books
Published: 2018-01-19T18:30:00+00:00

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“Come in,” Harper called when she heard a knock on the door of her vast, opulent bedroom. She’d been looking at the dresses in the wardrobe and trying some of them on. All of them fit her to a T although most were a good deal more revealing than she would have liked. Still, she looked amazingly hot in them which was nice—after what had happened with Shad, she needed a shot of self- confidence.

It had been almost a week since the big Kindred had helped cure her of the sex-milk symptoms and Harper estimated he hadn’t said ten words to her since, not even at meals, which was pretty much the only time she saw him.

Shad’s excuse for this was that she had to learn to act like an Empress and since he was supposed to be only her bodyguard, he naturally wouldn’t be chit-chatting with her at the dinner table. No, his job was to stand behind her chair and look imposing while he watched for possible threats. Harper’s job was to eat daintily and looked perfect and posh and royal.

They both practiced their roles at every meal which was how Harper found herself sitting alone at a long perfectly polished dark wood table eating from golden plates and drinking from golden cups and not tasting a thing because she could feel Shad standing behind her chair while they didn’t exchange a word.

It was miserable but it was also the only time she got to see the big Kindred. Harper spent the rest of the time in her room, reading or watching vids on the Interweb. What else could she do?

Whoever it was knocked on the door again and Harper frowned. Sometimes the clone-maids who waited on her were a little too deferential and hesitant.

“I said you can come in,” she called.

A male servant in black and silver livery opened the door and bowed low before her.

“My Empress, we are approaching Pelegiez-R where She Who Alters holds court,” he said, speaking deferentially to her feet, since it was apparently rude to raise his eyes higher than her ankles.

Harper felt her stomach flutter. She thought this past week in space where she and Shad were hardly speaking had been the longest of her life—but now it felt like the shortest. Was she really going to try and fool a Goddess into changing her so that the Hive could no longer use her as a pawn in this game of time travel and genocide?

Apparently she was.

“Well then…” She cleared her throat and tried to sound like an Empress. “Bring us in for a landing. And inform whoever is in charge that I—I mean we— seek an audience with She Who Alters at her earliest possible convenience.”

There—that sounded sufficiently royal, didn’t it? She’d even used the royal “we”.

“Of course, my Empress.” The servant bowed low and backed away, closing the door behind him. Harper watched him go with a flutter of apprehension around her heart.

God, what had

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