A Storm of Shadows and Pearls (The Oncoming Storm, #2) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789198564532
Published: 2020-05-30T07:13:07+00:00

26.

“H ow is this not classified as excessive threatening?” I muttered and gestured with one hand at the sword against my throat. I had wanted to use both hands but my other arm was pinned behind my back by the owner of said weapon.

Shade shook his head at me from across the room. “You seriously need to stop sneaking around our building, and start knocking on the front door when you want something.”

“Yeah but see, I’m not a knocking-on-the-front-door kind of girl,” I replied, my mouth drawing into an unapologetic grin.

“Mm-hmm.” The Assassins’ Guild Master crossed his arms over his chest and ran his eyes up and down my body. “Strip her.”

“You what?” I exclaimed and pulled against the hand locking my wrist in place.

Another assassin appeared from the side and started removing my various knives. Oh. That. Shade arched an eyebrow at me with an amused smile on his face. Damn assassin and his damn power trips. One day. One day I’d get back at him.

“She’s clean,” the man announced as his companion released my arm.

“Is she?” Shade said, fixing me with a calculating stare.

I rolled my eyes and magicked one more knife from my sleeve. While flashing a satisfied grin to the blond man on the left, I dropped the blade on the pile in front of me. The assassin who had missed it threw panicked looks between his Guild Master and the stack of knives.

“I’m sorry, Master,” he said. “It won’t happen again.”

Shade glanced at him from the corner of his eye. “No, it will not.” Shifting his gaze back to me, he jerked his head towards the staircase behind. “Let’s go.”

I hated it when he ordered me around but refusing to follow him up the stairs would only make me seem petty, so I trailed behind him until we reached his upstairs study.

“You sure have a talent for making enemies,” Shade said after he’d lowered himself into the chair behind the large desk.

I dropped down into the one across the table. “What do you mean?”

“Slim, the blond assassin by the door,” he began and nodded back the way we’d come, “you made him look like a fool. In front of me.”

Leaning back in the chair, I crossed my arms. “Well, if he didn’t want me to embarrass him he shouldn’t be so damn incompetent, should he?”

“He’s not going to forget this. But don’t worry, no one in my guild will touch you.” A smirk settled on his face. “Unless I tell them to, of course.”

I threw up my hands and blew out a sigh. “Again with the threats. I came here on business, do you wanna get on with it or not?”

Shade stared at me with an unreadable mask on his face before flicking his hand. “Go ahead.”

“I met with the forger and she’s on board.”

“She?”

“Yeah.”

He raised his eyebrows. “Your forger’s a woman?”

“That’s what I said. I told her we need a boatload and we need it sharpish and she agreed.” I held up my hand. “And before you go all attack mode on me again, she has no idea who the ‘we’ are.

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