For King and Corruption by Kel Carpenter

Author:Kel Carpenter [Carpenter, Kel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Rumors and Riots

“Take care with assumptions, for they can be the greatest of weapons.”

— Quinn Darkova, fear twister, right-hand to the King of Norcasta

“Lorraine!” Quinn cracked one eye open. The shout sounded from the hallway. She growled under her breath and shoved a pillow over her head to mute out the sound of Axe’s voice, but it did little good when she continued to shout. “Lorraine! Look what I just got! It’s a letter!”

“I see that, dear,” Lorraine’s voice infiltrated from just outside Quinn’s door and a moment later, a knock sounded.

“I think they’re here for you,” Risk said from somewhere across the room. Out of sight.

Quinn lifted her head, noting the brightness filtering in from the windows. She’d barely gotten any sleep. An hour or two at most. Quinn flung back the coverings before stomping toward the door, bypassing her sister seated in one of the chairs with a book in hand.

“—comin’ for my birthday. Can you believe it? She must be almost here because Madara said—Quinn! Good, you’re up. Let’s go, then.” Quinn blinked down at Axe as the girl cut herself off from the tirade of chattering to shove her way into the room. “Risk, you’re comin’ too, right?”

“Coming? Where are we going?” Risk’s tone suggested hesitation, but not outright refusal. Quinn turned, glaring at the red-headed spitfire before straightening and giving an apologetic turn of her lips to Lorraine.

“I know you probably haven’t gotten any sleep since returning, but Axe’s celebration of birth is coming up and I wanted to go into the city to put in a few orders for the palace. I thought you and your sister might like to join us?”

Quinn grit her teeth as something crashed behind her. “If we’re going, I’ll have to get dressed,” she finally said.

“Take your time. I’ve sent Vaughn to get the horses ready. He’ll be waiting out in the courtyard,” Lorraine replied.

“What?” Axe’s head popped up on the other side of the bed as Risk was attempting to put a candle holder back on one of the nightstands along with the book she’d been reading. “No! He can’t come.”

Quinn’s lips twisted as she headed for the wardrobe and removed a new pair of leather trousers. Donning them under the long white bed shirt, she tied the laces as Lorraine tsked at her charge. “Vaughn’s coming to keep you from getting into trouble. Unless you’d rather stay here . . . ”

“He’s an idiot,” Axe snapped. “He’ll stick to my side like a barnacle, the giant, dull-brained—” Axe flipped to Ilvan and began to curse violently as she got to her feet and began to stomp about the room.

“Yes . . . well, that’s the point,” Lorraine replied. “For him to stick to your side, that is.”

Quinn whipped off her shirt and attached a leather band back around her breasts before sliding a vest of fur over that as well. Buckling her dagger around her waist, Quinn reached for her staff and nodded for Risk to follow as the four of them made their way out into the hall.

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