Chaos (Xian Warriors Book 5) by Abel Regine

Author:Abel, Regine [Abel, Regine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781989761137
Published: 2020-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Chaos

For once in what felt like forever, we sat in the Vanguard conference room to hold a meeting instead of Legion’s office. Legion, Wrath, and Bane—the usual suspects—were gathered around the long conference table that occupied the right side of the rectangular room. Exceptionally, Tabitha had joined us as her analytical expertise might help us determine the plans for the next mission. She and her mate had settled on the opposite side from me, the large windows at their backs giving them both an almost angelic halo that belied Bane’s forever mischievous expression and Tabitha’s odd demeanor. My former Soulcatcher looked like she was in on some juicy secret that would rock our world once it came out in the open. On the left side of the room, standing in front of a giant vidscreen was a far less usual guest: our sweet Victoria.

Between her long, fiery mane and the trademark, flowy, colorful, boho dress she wore, Raven’s mother stood out in the room decorated with the standard black walls accented with gold that she always found so gloomy. It was odd to have her here instead of Raven. But the brat was yet again busy training my mate. A pang of jealousy gnawed at me. It had been two days since our return from Fobos. Two long days without seeing my woman, when we had been together almost constantly in the week since I’d met her on Thirilia.

“I have completed the medical examination of the two modified Mimics,” Victoria said. “Deisha’s wounds are on the mend. She got incredibly lucky that mutant missed the artery in her leg when he stabbed her. She will make a full recovery in a few more weeks,” Victoria said with a smile. “Unlike the previous two you had captured on Zekuro and who are still being deprogrammed from the brainwashing Khutu subjected them to, Herina and Deisha were not indoctrinated in a similar fashion. Silzi, Varnog, and two psychiatric evaluators have confirmed as much. They are not a threat to us.”

“Do you know why they weren’t?” I asked, intrigued by that oddity.

“We can’t say for sure, but Silzi surmises that it had to do with their personalities. Like Pahiven, Herina and Deisha always had more subdued, if not submissive, tempers whereas Shuria and the others are alphas,” Victoria said pensively. “The General indoctrinated those he wanted to use as assassins but didn’t bother with the ones he intended to turn as breeders.”

“But he planned on making Shuria one of the breeders for Bane,” Legion argued.

“He said that to get her to play along,” Bane replied. “But the General knew all along it wouldn’t come to pass, either by my defection or by her refusal to be turned into a simple broodmare.”

“Well, that is some good news,” Wrath said. “Can what has been done to them be undone?”

“No,” Victoria said with a sad look in her pale blue eyes. “They will be able to live a normal life among their people, but reproduction is out of the question for them.

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