Clan Novel Assamite - Book 7 of The Clan Novel Saga by Gherbod Fleming

Clan Novel Assamite - Book 7 of The Clan Novel Saga by Gherbod Fleming

Author:Gherbod Fleming [Fleming, Gherbod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampires, horror
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2019-03-06T07:00:00+00:00


Fatima let Parmenides out within two miles of the hotel that Vykos had co-opted from Marcus Vitel. She turned the Land Cruiser south toward the private airport and the plane that would carry her to Spain. Reaching under her shirt, she removed the P 226 Sig that she’d been wearing on her left hip. She had given Parmenides enough not-so-subtle indications that it was there, and he had responded accordingly, measuring his movements carefully. He probably had assumed that she doubted his identity, especially considering his completely altered appearance, but that hadn’t been the case. He was her clansman. At Fatima’s age, the blood knew.

There had still existed the very real chance that she would destroy him, and if she’d moved against him, he would have guarded against the weapon in her left hand, more so than the dagger from the wrist-sheath on her right arm—the dagger that would have slit his throat and sent paralyzing poison coursing through his undead body. Then the 9mm explosive shell from the Sig would have finished the matter.

It had not come to that, however. Fatima was not boundless in her confidence that Parmenides could destroy Vykos. That devious and venerable creature harbored more deceits than the desert had granules of sand. Under most circumstances, Fatima would have ordered her charge back to Alamut rather than return him to the fiend, but there was the chance that he might uncover some detail that would aid her own quest for Monçada. For that chance, she was rightfully willing to risk Parmenides. No childe of Haqim would shirk such duty. In a way, Fatima thought, Parmenides, in accepting his lot without question, was more steadfast in his loyalty than was she, doubting al-Ashrad’s word that the Way of Allah and the Path of Blood must one night diverge; than was she, still doubting in the back of her mind the elders’ pronouncement about the Kurd who had attacked her just two months before; than was she, possibly having endangered her mission by needing to see Lucita; than was she, still trying to ignore the fact that Lucita, like her sire, must be destroyed.

Again, she fought down such thoughts. They did not further her mission, and she had much traveling still to do this night.



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