The Domina by K. A. Linde

Author:K. A. Linde [Linde, K. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Amazon: B07J6SZC5T
Goodreads: 35110432
Publisher: K.A. Linde Inc.
Published: 2019-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-four hours dragged by. The slowest and one of the most excruciating days of her life. The waiting and wondering. Staring at Ahlvie. Avoiding Ahlvie. Trying to decide if he was betraying them or leading them astray.

More waiting.

More wondering.

By the time the Guild reappeared in the warehouse with the official all-clear, Cyrene thought she would go utterly mad if she was there another moment.

“Well?” she asked the Commander.

“As far as I can tell, it looks like he speaks the truth. There are Indres in the city, but they seem aimless without him. Nowhere near our side of the city. The Honorary and her lot still aren’t back from the sacred grounds. We intercepted a messenger that put more patrols out, looking for your description, but no one on their way here. No sign of this Wara…Braj.”

Cyrene breathed a sigh of relief. “That doesn’t mean that he’s telling the truth, but it’s a relief.”

“I also think it’s probably our cue to leave.”

Cyrene froze. “Truly?”

“We voted while you were visiting your sister. As much as we all agreed that there was much to do here in Kell, we’re hardly safe where we are. And there’s more that can be done.” The Commander looked off toward his troops standing in the shadows. “I said we’d all go or no one.”

“And they agreed to that?” she asked in disbelief.

“It proved that I stood with every one of them. In the end, we all agreed.” His gaze swept back to her. “We follow you, Domina.”

“How soon can we leave?”

He arched an eyebrow. “What do you think we’ve been doing the last day?”

“Of course.”

“Are you putting down your beast?”

She shook her head. “He’s coming with us. I have a plan.”

A lie. She had no plan. But she had a thought at least. And a thought could grow into something more.

“No, you don’t,” he said with a laugh.

“Okay, fine. Not a plan. But an idea.”

“You risk a lot for him.”

“He’d do the same for me if he were in full control of himself. He has many times before. I can’t abandon him. Just as you said that it’s all of your people or none of them, it’s the same for me. And he is one of mine.”

The Commander shot her a rare smile. “I can respect that.”

She held her hand out. And he reluctantly put his in hers.

“Thank you, Tristen.”

“Let’s just hope that your plan for us is just crazy enough to work.”

“Those are my best plans.”

He released her hand and arched an eyebrow. “Trust me, I know.”

Cyrene returned to Dean to tell him the good news. She looked over the shield around Ahlvie and wondered how she was going to make this mobile. They couldn’t exactly drop it and let him walk with them. Not if Malysa could still get to him. But Cyrene didn’t really want to knock him out and have someone carry him. That might be even more suspicious than him walking inside a shield no one could see.

“Where are we going?” Ahlvie asked.

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