Maddie by Candace Robinson

Author:Candace Robinson [Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indie Author Project
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Maddie

Noah just had to go ahead and muck things up and make the situation worse. Chess had stepped a few paces away, always slinking. He wasn’t the brightest bulb in the box which may have been the reason Ever had been able to stab him so easily before escaping. But he was ridiculously strong.

Yet Maddie could be sneaky. She had a plan—one that now would have to come to fruition another way because of Noah’s hotheadedness a few moments ago.

Chess stood near the dead man’s body, the scent of metal filling the air. A heavenly smell, but she was still satiated from her powdered meal yesterday.

“Ah, here we are,” Chess purred, holding up a closed switchblade that he’d fished from the man’s pocket. Swiping the tip of his tongue at the corner of his mouth, he popped open the switchblade and sauntered toward Maddie. “Don’t worry, little plum, I’m only taking you home.” He paused. “Which means you’ll owe me. But if you come back here, I’ll have to get my hands dirty.” The prince drew a gentle line across her throat with the blade, and Maddie held back spitting in his face while Noah glowered.

“Come on then. I’ve still got other jobs to do.” Chess grinned, placing his hand in the middle of the rope, and tugged them forward as if leading two horses.

Maddie didn’t need this delay. If he took them back to Scarlet, they wouldn’t have enough time to complete their journey to save Alice before she had to deliver the hat to Imogen. She glanced at Noah and found his gaze trained on her, as though he’d been trying to silently catch her attention. Then he flicked his stare to the rope, motioning his head at it.

She frowned, not understanding what he wanted her to see. If Maddie could get closer to Noah, then she could untie him, but Chess’s hand hovered between them. Noah cleared his throat and bulged his eyes at the rope, then at Chess.

Oh. She knew precisely what he wanted them to attempt. A distraction would have to do the trick first.

“What if I offer you a trade, Chess?” Maddie sang, a smile spreading across her face.

“I have everything I could ever want,” the heartless prince said without looking at them, his shoulders square, his body relaxed.

“Do you?” Maddie asked.

Chess glanced back, smirking, his chestnut-colored brow arched. “Do you plan on giving me sweet Ever?”

“I told you,” Maddie drew her words out slowly, “for the last time, I don’t know where she is.”

“Pity then.” He jerked them forward and Maddie stumbled. “I may change my mind and take you to Mother instead.”

The blood in Maddie’s veins turned to liquid fire as she thought about Ever, what Chess would’ve done to her if the White Queen hadn’t gotten away. Would he have slit her throat then removed her head or ripped out her heart the way his mother did with her enemies? “Yes, a pity you won’t tell your mother you saw me here because then she would know you lost us.

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