Rebel Mate by Grace Goodwin

Author:Grace Goodwin [Goodwin, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KSA Publishers

10

Isaak

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It had been four years since I’d been in this house. Mansion. Four years for me but just over one month for my family. Too soon to expect anything to have changed. The thick marble of the place still gleamed like a beacon. Built to withstand the blistering desert sun and constant heat, it was built with thick stone quarried from the region’s vast mines. It held in the coolness while large windows in every room offered views. While I liked things simple and kept furnishings to a minimum, it lacked for nothing. Just like any household that was part of High Councilor Henrick’s family. While nothing had changed, not a piece of furniture moved, it looked different. I was different. I’d had a staff, a full contingency of servants befitting a rich son of a High Councilor, but when I’d left, I’d paid them handsomely and relocated them to work a cousin’s estate. Since there wasn’t a layer of dust on every surface, it seemed someone had defied my orders and remained behind. Perhaps it was my mother’s doing, maintaining a constant vigil that I might someday return.

Well, that time had come. All because of the female beside me.

While that was true, it was also because of Bertok. He was up to something. Something bad. So bad that he’d murdered an innocent man for his bride, sold her to a known trader in the outer reaches to pass on to the leader of the most ruthless legion on Rogue 5. He’d received credit for Zara, but there was more. He could have earned that from selling her to anyone. No, Bertok and Cerberus had made a deal, and it all had to do with that necklace I’d ridiculously thought was a human decoration, just like her navel ring.

While I’d left so long ago, I was still bitter. Still angry at my family. Yet Trion was my home, and I couldn’t let Bertok live knowing what he’d done to Zara. What he intended to do with Cerberus. I didn’t need to have the details of their plan to assume it was very, very bad. Cerberus’ depths of evil had yet to be plumbed… and I knew more stories than most because of Zenos and Ivy.

Based on Zenos’ drive to learn the truth about the other legion’s leader, he, too, was rightfully concerned.

I dropped my bag on the tile floor by the entry, looked to Zara. I was exhausted. I didn’t transport often, preferring to travel by my ship. That wasn’t possible coming to Trion, and I’d forgotten how it sucked the energy from my body.

We’d come from Zenith directly here. It wasn’t the time for sightseeing. The transport center was large, and I hoped my return was not noticed by anyone familiar to me. I would have to visit my parents eventually, but by the way Zara was swaying on her feet, I didn’t want it to happen right away. I wasn’t ready to deal with them on top of everything else.

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