Burn And Blaze by Grace McGinty

Author:Grace McGinty [McGinty, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

She didn’t know why someone was banging on her door like a drumming monkey on amphetamines, but they were going to die a painful death as soon as she could move without wanting to throw up.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" she croaked loudly, then instantly regretted it as pain speared through her skull. She felt like she had a mouth full of cotton balls and her eyes were stuck together with Krazy Glue. Her door opened and closed, and she struggled to raise her head to see who it was. There was a half-eaten hot dog on her night stand, and just looking at it made her want to puke.

"Well, I see you took my advice. I always wondered what a hangover felt like, seeing how it is such a bemoaned fact of human life. Looking at you now, I'm glad it will only ever be a hypothetical question. You look like shit." Killian's voice sounded smugly amused, and if she could have summoned the energy to throw something heavy at his smirking face, she would have done it in an instant, slave cuffs be damned. Unfortunately, all she could do was groan and bury her face in the pillow.

"What do you want? Did the Council decide to chop off my head? Because right now, that'd probably be a mercy," she mumbled into her pillow. She really didn't need anyone to witness her half-human humiliation.

Killian cleared his throat uncomfortably. "I've been thinking about what you said yesterday, about being alone now that Bast has been transferred to the Sila Councilors political seat in Stuttgart. So, I've come to invite you to a family dinner. Offsite. Father will be there of course, and my mother. Also a couple of our siblings, and perhaps their mothers. Whoever is in the country really." More throat clearing. "We usually get together once every couple of years, or whenever Father commands it. But I thought introducing you to a couple of us at a time might be a better plan. I left my twin sister Keeley in charge of the arrangements. You'll like her, she has a certain spunk about her too."

Azar managed to sit up in bed, prying her eyes open. Her gaze ran thoughtfully over Killian. He actually seemed like he cared. Apparently he wasn’t the cold heartless asshole that everyone had warned her about.

"I'd like that," she mumbled, because her mouth was still drier than her desert homeland.

Even though the thought of meeting so much family, and spending time with her father, filled her stomach with leaden butterflies, she found that she genuinely meant her statement. Killian gave her a little smile, then his face was back to its neutral mask of her commanding officer.

"I've done as much damage control as I can after yesterday's little outburst. The news couldn't be contained, after all even the Djinn have cell phones. I convinced the higher ups that it was a family dispute, rather than a slave attacking the head of the Adel.

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