Possessed by a Warrior by Sharon Ashwood

Author:Sharon Ashwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The humans and Kenyon were eating their dinner downstairs. Sam was upstairs, pacing the hallway. He wasn’t in the mood to pretend. He’d heard the whole wedding-at-Oakwood discussion through the meeting room door. Part of him wanted to say it was a terrible idea—a security nightmare—that should be squashed immediately. On the other hand, that amount of chaos would surely tempt his adversaries to make their move. In a perverse way, the Fallon–Venuto wedding would give Sam the opportunity to choose his battleground and he knew Oakwood inside out.

Sam wandered into one of the empty bedrooms on the third floor. It had the feel of an abandoned place, a little too cold, a tiny bit dusty. Still, it was a perfectly good place to make a private phone call. He pushed the door shut.

Sam was ready to deal with villains popping out of the woodwork, but there were three other things to consider before he invited them to come get the diamonds. First was the shooting in the nightclub. The second was what he had learned about Jessica Lark. Last, there was Carter.

The shooter in the nightclub had always bothered him. Although an assassination would have furthered the agenda of fanatical elements invested in conflict between Marcari and Vidon—such as the Knights of Vidon—the shooter had no known political affiliations. In fact, the boy had seemed in a trance, almost as if he had no idea what he was doing. Mind control. Some vampires had the ability. Sam wasn’t one of them, but both Carter and Winspear were. Both had been there that night. Both were here now. So were the Knights. Coincidence or connection? It was hard to tell.

And then there was Jessica Lark. From what he could tell from her records, Lark was not a vampire, but she wasn’t human, either. Sam’s guess was that the designer had fey blood. As a rule, the fey had their own agenda and weren’t to be trusted, but the Company dealt with a few in a limited capacity. Only those agents with the very highest clearance went near the seductive, unpredictable creatures. The fact that Jack had been her contact made sense. He was an old and trusted agent of the Company. But why was Mark Winspear, a newcomer, the one in the photo with Jessica Lark?

And why was Carter really here? The Company’s director didn’t make pickup runs, no matter how important the cargo. Was he here only because he suspected Winspear and Kenyon to be traitors? He’d said as much, but Sam didn’t buy it—no matter how sound Carter’s reasoning. There had to be more to it.

He sat on the edge of the bed and pulled out his cell phone. Do I really want to do this? Once he dialed, once he set things in motion, he would have to accept the results, whatever those turned out to be. Even if his friends were in fact revealed as thieves and murderers.

But was that really a possibility? Kenyon had been devoted to Jack, who had pulled him out of the gutter and turned his life around.

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