Release (Hold #2) by Claire Kent

Author:Claire Kent [Kent, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

Six

That evening, Kyla felt very strange as she went down for Court at the normal time.

She felt different than she had even the day before—like she’d experienced something, lived through something, that no one else had.

She wasn’t sure if it was how she’d been with Hall that afternoon or the way she’d been seriously considering leaving her home planet for good. Either way, she felt far apart from the people around her—even farther than she normally did.

As she took her normal seat at the end of the royal table, she scanned the room, her eyes landing intuitively on where Hall sat among the other Potentials. He was watching her, as usual, and his lips turned up just slightly when their eyes met.

She had to fight not to smile back.

He was too much—his spirit not dulling even in the strangest of circumstances. She wanted to be with him, more than she’d ever wanted to be with anyone else.

Maybe that was enough. Maybe that was the sign that she should leave with him after all.

She looked away when her confusion made her too self-conscious. Court was in full swing, even though Patrice hadn’t yet arrived. Established couples had already started to make out, although no one was yet going too far. They didn’t yet know what mood Patrice would implement for the evening’s entertainment.

Kyla wished she were sitting next to Hall. She wished she could claim him as hers. Not that she wanted to have sex with him in front of all these people, but she wished she could take him back to her room this evening.

Instead, she had to hope that his gift would be enough to keep Patrice from choosing him as a partner tonight. It would be just Kyla’s luck for him to not be able to discourage her interest, and then she’d have to watch him making love to her sister.

She wondered what he would do, should that happen. Then she realized she already knew. He was a practical man. He’d told her himself. He lived with no shackles—no ties or commitments. He would do whatever needed to be done to get out of a tight situation without any harm being done to him or his profit.

Whatever had happened between him and Kyla wasn’t likely to change that.

It didn’t matter. She wasn’t expecting him to become a new man—a different man. She just needed to decide whether what they had was enough for her to leave her planet, her sister, and everything she’d known.

She sat in a daze for a few minutes, trying to figure out this mystery, until she heard a familiar fanfare from the horns signal Patrice’s entrance.

The fanfare went on for longer than normal as her sister slowly entered the throne room. Kyla tried not to cringe at the elaborate introduction. No matter how many times she was warned, her sister just wouldn’t learn. Calling attention to her royal pedigree was dangerous.

But a fanfare was just a fanfare. There shouldn’t be anything else occurring tonight that would be too much of a problem.

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