Admiral's Throne for Beta Done by Wachter Luke Sky

Author:Wachter, Luke Sky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

The Eye of the Storm

I was still cutting a saw in the royal bedchambers, when directly outside the room, Sean D’Argeant was standing guard.

The communicator at his wrist vibrated and looking down at the screen, he stiffened.

“What is it, Sir?” Jake Evans asked, looking at him curiously.

“There’s been an attack on the King’s mother,” D’Argeant said shortly.

“Initiate Protective Protocol?” Evans asked, putting a hand on his blaster pistol and turning to look at the door leading out of the guard post and back into the Palace proper.

Sean D’Argeant gave him an enigmatic look.

“Of course,” he said strictly. Then placing a hand on the butt of his hand weapon, he headed inward to check on the King. First secure the area, then secure the King, then link up with the Palace Guard and in their King’s specific case, the larger Lancer detail stationed nearby in case the Palace Guard proved as unreliable as everyone expected.

His hand just fell on the door handle when he felt a sharp pain in his back.

Falling forward, he tried to roll to the side and clear his blaster pistol but something grabbed him by the belt, slamming him head first into the wall beside the door.

He collapsed face-first into the floor but even in a daze, the Chief Armsman was a trained professional. Instinctively, he reached for the hold-out pistol in the sleeve of his uniform, and had just cleared the holster when a boot came down heel-first right on the back of his head, knocking the weapon out of his hand and rendering him unconscious.

“Sorry, Sir. But you should have kept him away from here. The people just aren’t ready for a Montagne, not now, maybe not ever, but certainly not now. I’m sorry you couldn’t see that,” Jake Evans said to the now incapacitated Chief Armsman and then leaving the knife in his superior’s back, he straightened his uniform.

“Besides, he’s a usurper, not the true King at all,” he said stepping away from Sean D’Argeant and pulling out his side-arm.

He took a deep steadying breath.

“Moment of truth,” he muttered, giving the door a quick knock before reaching for the old-fashioned knob and opening it.

Peeking his head in through the doorway, Jake Evans saw the Prince, the usurper, he reminded himself, sleeping peacefully on the bed and snoring up a storm.

Then he realized the King, no, wrong, the Prince Usurper, was alone.

His head tracked around the room, labeling targets until his eyes landed on the Lady. She was sitting in a large plush leather chair, one with lots of buttons in the back.

She raised a hand to her lips.

“I heard something hit the wall, what’s going on?” she asked.

“I’m sorry, my Lady,” he said respectfully and took a step into the room, “but there’s been an attack in the city. It’s his mother. I need to check on the Prince…. I mean King.”

He started for the bed.

“Is Elaine alright?” Akantha asked with concern and he stopped, ready to put an end to the farce until he spotted the blaster pistol she was holding sideways in her lap.

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