Return of Victory: A Kurtherian Gambit Series (Reclaiming Honor Book 8) by Justin Sloan & Michael Anderle

Author:Justin Sloan & Michael Anderle [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2017-10-04T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

New York

Sandra was helping Clara to go over the hand-to-hand combat techniques she had learned in her time with the Forsaken in Old France. Clara had been a pirate and knew how to shoot and the basics of fighting, particularly when it came to keep someone off her, but she hadn’t ever been properly trained.

Not many of these people had, Sandra realized after a glance around her. They were watching, some starting to practice the blocks and counter-strikes on their own.

Well, that wouldn’t do.

“Everyone find a partner and try to imitate me,” Sandra said, and then waited for them to partner up.

“I promise,” Clara said while they waited, using the moment to stretch, “that if we ever have to use this, I’ll fight your attacker off before anyone else’s.”

Sandra nodded. “Normally I’d say I don’t need it, but yeah… Given the circumstances, I might take you up on that.”

The others were ready, so she had Clara come at her as if holding a knife, then demonstrated a simple move to disarm her. She stepped sideways and hit the arm with her left forearm, then grabbed and bent the arm in using her other hand so that the knife turned in on her opponent.

When she was done she had others try, and walked around giving pointers. “This might not help you if the fight comes today,” Sandra told them, “but if you keep practicing and someone comes at you tomorrow, the next day, or a week from now, who knows?”

“You really think this will go on for that long?” a boy asked.

She shook her head. “Once vampires and Weres are in the mix, no. These things tend to go a lot faster than they would otherwise when that happens.”

The room looked uneasy at that, so Sandra decided she had better be upfront about everything.

“Keep practicing,” she said, walking among the with her hands behind her back. “The fact is, vampires and Weres aren’t all bad. They are definitely not what you’ve heard about in your bedtime stories or whatever version you might have been told. They are simply modified humans. In fact, my husband is a Were.”

“Like he turns into a wolf?”

She laughed. “More like a cute little cat, but don’t tell him I said so.” That got her some chuckles, which helped the room relax. “The point is that you shouldn’t ever be scared about something just because of your preconceived notions. Fire kills. It burns. But it also cooks food and gives us light. You see?”

A couple of them nodded, and Sandra noticed the Were son in the back smiling her way. She hadn’t even thought about how he must feel in here, and had noticed him following her around a bit. Now she got it, as she smiled back. Down here she was one of the very few who knew what he was—who got him—to the extent that anyone could understand someone who’s a Were when you yourself weren’t.

She was considering going over to him when a commotion sounded in the hall.

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