A Lethal Betrayal by Kate MacLeod

Author:Kate MacLeod [MacLeod, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951439897
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press

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Ritchie stacked all the empty cake bowls together and carried them over to the replicator in the corner of the room to be recycled into raw matter. Then she did the same with the spoons, and lastly, the tray itself.

And then she officially ran out of useful things to do.

She wandered out to the moonlit balcony. She had intended to stand at the railing and look down at the calming waves of grass again, but instead she found herself pacing back and forth, back and forth as she waited.

She told herself for the umpteenth time that searching the room of an only mildly suspicious couple was absolutely not worth putting her future career in jeopardy, let alone Wyss's. She knew it wasn't.

But she really wished she was down there now, helping the others search.

Only it was so hard, being in the same room as Fitz. It was all so confusing.

He had always known the truth about her father. That sentence just kept ringing through her mind, over and over again. He had always known the truth about her father. And he had never said a word to her. Not even a hint.

And no matter what he thought, suddenly telling her the truth wasn't all it took for them to be friends again. That didn't instantly win her trust. Especially as she still didn't know the whole story.

But focusing on Fitz's betrayal was a strangely comforting sort of anger. She was used to being annoyed and even angry with Fitz. She knew how to live with those feelings.

But not knowing what exactly happened that day with her father was the vast, bottomless sea of darkness that lurked under that surface anger with Fitz. Had he been set up? By Fitz's father? Why? And what did it mean now that she knew? Was she a target, too?

What about her mother and her grandmother?

Ritchie hugged her arms tight to her sides, realized she was doing this because she was shaking, and quickly forced her mind back to Fitz. Fitz trying to make everything better with one simple gesture. Like it could ever be that easy.

She really wished she was with him now, searching that room.

"Ritchie?" Fitz called, and she ducked back inside the sitting room just as Fitz turned the lights up to full. She blinked at the sudden brightness, then jumped back as something clattered to the ground at her feet.

"What's all this?" she asked as she danced back from a pile of swords and knives that flashed in the lights as they rocked on the tiles.

"Look familiar?" he asked her, grinning wildly.

"They look like the ones from our room," Moreau said, then added with deep sarcasm, "kind of."

Ritchie dropped to one knee to look at them closer, not letting her fingers get anywhere near any of them. "It's a similar set. Long sword, short sword, curved dagger," she said.

"The markings are similar as well," Sokolov said, but she, like Moreau, was far less excited by this find than Fitz.

"They share a homeworld," Wyss told her, "but the dating is centuries apart.

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