Girl Goes To Wudang (An Emily Kane Adventure Book 7) by Jacques Antoine

Author:Jacques Antoine [Antoine, Jacques]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amaterasu Press
Published: 2017-02-07T08:00:00+00:00

18

Taking Her Leave

For the next few nights, it was difficult to sleep. She hoped no rumor of an incident outside a nightclub would find its way to the embassy, and she worried about Zhizheng, who’d suffered a concussion and memory loss, at least briefly. Wu Dao’s ribs were bruised, but he’d escaped more or less undamaged, and had even been able to drive home, which was fortunate since Fan Xiao didn’t know how to drive Zhizheng’s sportscar, leaving Emily the task. A complicated shuttle system ensued, in which she followed him to the Fan estate, and then to Zhizheng’s mother’s house… and everyone ended up at the right destination, though Emily had to push Wu Dao back into his car when he tried to invite himself up to her apartment.

A “Daoist” cold shower helped her shed the worst passions, the ones that had urged her to exact the most severe penalties from their assailants. The question recurred the whole ride home, were those men really “their” assailants, or just hers? She’d read about gangs of thugs attacking westerners who dated Chinese girls – there’d even been an incident a few weeks earlier. But their party hardly fit that description. She was the only westerner, and anyone would be hard pressed to pick her out of a crowd in this town, unless they noticed her awkward ‘Beijingese’.

If she had identified of the voice speaking in her heart, and the last assailant really was Feng Hu, with Feng Tu no doubt watching from the shadows, why would they have wanted to attack Wu Dao and Zhizheng? If they had really meant to single her out, that would mean they’d discovered her role in the death of their brother. But who would have told them?

She shivered off the last of the shower, toweled off and slipped under the covers. With the shades drawn, the streetlights from the corner threw a thin shaft into one corner of the ceiling, and she peeked at it with a sheet covering the lower half of her face. The wallpaper in that corner had a crinkle that bent the light ever so lightly into a chiaroscuro of Fan Xiao’s face in profile, or so it seemed to her sleepy eyes.

The girl had opened up to her, contrary to expectations, and even offered almost sisterly advice: “Don’t fall in love.” Emily had taken it as a kindness at the time, though now she’d begun to direct a different sort of attention to what it might mean. Does she think I’m not good enough for Wu Dao… or not pretty enough? This last reflection stuck in the back of her throat, since she knew perfectly well that she was much too ugly to attract anyone. Hadn’t Gyoshin Heiji confided this very thought to her, just before Emily let the katana slip between two vertebrae to separate her head from her shoulders?

“We may not be pretty, you and I,” Gyoshin had said. “But at least we know better than to fear death.

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