Freeing the Prisoner_Kindred Tales_Brides of the Kindred by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Nope, you’re right—I’m not going to fit in there.” Ky eyed the tiny, dark crawlspace Dani was showing him and shook his head regretfully. “Wish I could—it would sure make getting back to my ship a hell of a lot easier.” He looked at her hopefully. “Unless it opens up a little more further on?”

“I’m afraid not.” Dani sighed. “Well, I didn’t think you’d fit. We’ll just have to risk the main hallways.”

“I will but you don’t have to, little girl. You fit, after all,” Ky reminded her. “You take the passages behind the walls and I’ll take the hallways. I think I can still remember the way.” Although to be honest he couldn’t be sure—it was all a maze of glass and mirrors in his mind. He had been too busy shouting and struggling with the guards as they herded him to the cell to really look which way he was going. Still, he was fairly certain he could find his way to the docking bay. Kindred, being travelers, had a good sense of direction.

But Dani lifted her chin and a stubborn light shone in her big black eyes.

“No,” she said, frowning. “No, Ky, I won’t leave you. I know the safest ways to go. And if…” her voice dropped. “If something happens to you, well…I want it to happen to me too. All right?”

He was impressed by her courage and touched by her loyalty. He shouldn’t let her go with him, he thought—ought to make her take the safer route instead. But if he was cut down by blaster fire on the way to the ship, then she’d be stranded on this damn misogynistic planet where females were worth less than dirt. This way, at least he could protect her.

And if they died, they died together.

Never thought I’d fall in love and enter a suicide pact with a strange princess when those damn Goshan ships forced me down on this hellish little planet, he thought grimly. But here he was and as strange as it sounded, he wouldn’t have it any other way. Something told him he had been meant to find Dani and if this was the risk he had to take to have her, well then, he would Goddess-damn well risk it.

* * * * *

Later, Dani often relived their long, breathless flight from the Royal wing of the palace to the docking bay in her dreams. She saw herself in the mirrored walls, rushing in her torn dress and silent in her small slippers with Ky behind her. The big Kindred looked like a massive, pale ghost in the reflective surfaces, his brilliant green eyes darting left and right, ready to jump ahead and push her behind him if trouble struck.

But though Dani was certain they would run into a battalion of guards at every corner, they saw no one in the echoing mirrored halls. All was quiet—eerily so.

The silence seemed to spook Ky too.

“Hey, where is everybody, little girl?” he muttered in her ear as they made their way through the palace, using the least-traveled routes Dani could find.

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