Shadow Knight by Sam Hunter

Author:Sam Hunter [Hunter, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Two

I didn’t wait for Fleur to explain—just pushed past her to the landing, where I could look down upon the main foyer.

Sure enough, a small squad of Van Dent’s men were storming the house, the familiar black-and-yellow pattern of their tunics sending a spike of nausea through my stomach.

“Liv,” I breathed.

Somewhere in the house, Liv was unarmed and unguarded—as I’d officially given up hope that the de Treque guards were capable of even protecting a rock.

“Get in the library and lock the door,” I told Fleur, pushing her backwards towards Amber, who was standing up and clutching her book in fear.

“I can help,” Fleur insisted.

“Protect Amber, fortify the library,” I told her. “I’m going to find Liv and come back.”

Before she could protest more, I was closing the door and running off—sprinting across the hall and down the stairs as fast as my feet would carry, unsheathing my sword as I ran.

Van Dent’s men had moved quickly through the foyer, clearly searching the house for me and Liv, leaving a trail of destruction in their path. The empty podiums were knocked over, the curtains ripped down from their windows.

“Hold your blows, men!” I heard one of them yell. “Lord Van Dent wants the girl alive!”

I ran towards the sound of their voices, through the sitting room the men had been smoking in before, through a large and unused kitchen, and into an immaculate living area, where, to my surprise, two de Treque guards were fighting spear-to-spear with two Van Dent guards—and one more of Van Dent guards was already dead on the ground. One of the de Treque men was the leader who had stood up before, and he looked at me with relief as I ran past.

“They’ve got her in the parlor, up ahead!” he shouted.

I nodded, gripping the hilt of my sword as I pushed on, thankful that at least a few of the de Treque men were still loyal to Liv. Bursting through the next doorway, I entered what had to be the parlor, where one of Van Dent’s men was gagging Liv with a dirty cloth. Five more men were gathered around her, as if it took six guys to restrain one noblewoman who’d spent the last several months in a dungeon.

“Dex!” Liv shouted. Or, at least, that’s what I assumed she shouted through the gag.

All six guards turned to face me, each drawing their weapon as they did.

“Hey guys, how are your days going?” I asked.

In the second they took to process this, I grabbed a ceremonial shield off its mount on the wall, running at the closest man with it covering my torso. His spear rammed directly into the wood, piercing it just enough to get it caught in there before I rammed the shield into his head, cracking his skull into the mantle behind him.

Liv gasped through her gag, trying to back up from the fight—but two men grabbed her arms, keeping her restrained. As I turned from the mantle, another guard lunged at me, missing my torso by mere inches as I spun away from his spear’s jab.

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