Order of the Blade Boxed Set by Stephanie Rowe

Author:Stephanie Rowe [Rowe, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Authenticity Playground, LLC

Lily paused in the hallway outside the living room. She could hear the murmur of male voices. The Order of the Blade was waiting for her. Men who had taken an oath to kill her on sight because she was Gideon's sheva. Warriors who were ready to take her from Gideon. Calydons who were at war in the battle that had resulted in her imprisonment for the last two years.

Suddenly, all Lily's courage and strength deserted her. How could she summon up the energy to resume the battle? It had felt so good to flirt with Gideon, to wash her hair, to feel like a woman being excited about a new man. To be normal, or as close to normal as she could get.

She didn't want to resume her life again. She really didn't.

Lily leaned against the wall and closed her eyes. I can't do this.

"Yes, you can." Gideon walked out of the living room, apparently having sensed her presence before she'd reached out to him.

He was wearing a clean pair of jeans, a gray tee shirt, and a different pair of boots. This pair was black and worn. His hair was curling around the back of his neck, but there was a small mark on his skin where she'd cut him. There were angry red marks around both wrists...from the chains?

He followed her gaze to his wrists. "Yeah, it's the chains. I was a little crazed for a few minutes. Thankfully, Dante had the foresight to install them a long time ago to contain Order members after their shevas are killed. We had to put Ian in them after Elijah killed his sheva. I didn't think we'd get to let him go, actually..."

Lily swallowed, searching his blue eyes that were so serious now. "God, Gideon. What are we getting ourselves into?"

"I have no idea, and no one else does either. This is virgin territory, but we all understand now why Satinka are so rare."

"The Calydons killed us off."

"Yeah. Not on purpose, but that doesn't seem to matter." He flexed his wrists. "I'm under control now. You ready to go in?"

She shook her head. "The males in there are my enemies. I've spent my life—"

"I was the only Order member who was your enemy." He walked over to her and caught her wrist, his fingers just below the cut he'd made with his axe. "Just me."

"No, not just you. Cade was my enemy. Anyone in the Order would have come to kill him if you hadn't." She looked at his hand where he held her, his fingers loose around her wrist. "If I hadn't been your sheva, I would have been someone else's. And now...now they want to kill me and—"

"This meeting in there isn't about you. It's about stopping Frank. That's the only focus right now. Any fate of yours is periphery right now."

She shivered. "Frank has to be stopped."

"He does." Gideon cocked his head. "Did I tell you we think he kidnapped a young Calydon? Nineteen years old? His name's Drew Cartland.

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