The Unrepentant: Part One by Grace McGinty

Author:Grace McGinty [McGinty, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter five

Nazir Ashear was basically a ghost. A name that my parents smiled over when they talked about old times, when we were younger. A name that made Clary tear up a little, but she’d always smile as she said it. Adnan was the only one who knew Nazir at all.

He’d join military school when I’d been four. I barely recognized him except as this glorious big kid that Adnan absolutely worshipped. Living through the Syrian war had changed Nazir, even as a boy.

After military school he’d gone on to join the army, then became SAS, then covert ops, and then he’d dropped it all to join some renegade offshoot of the Legion and became a mercenary. Or at least that's what Lux said, his voice filled with something that sounded like worried pride.

I barely knew him. I’d seen him once when I was sixteen, at Adnan’s debut performance as lead dancer for the Ballet Company. He’d come home to see his baby brother achieve his dreams. Even though Adnan’s left leg was amputated from the knee down, the best prosthetics that money could buy ensured Adnan could do whatever his heart desired. Nazir had sat at the back of the theater, his back to the wall, with Lux. The rest of us sat down the front row, cheering so loud that I thought they’d kick us out.

I remembered Hope’s face when she’d read him, though. She’d flinched, barely perceptible, but I’d seen it and so had Nazir. Hope hugged the Devil with joy on her face. Whatever she read in Nazir that was enough to make her flinch had put me on guard and I’d remained that way, even after he’d disappeared into the night, never to be seen again. Until now.

He was tall, maybe six feet, and strong. Strength poured off him in waves, his forearms and biceps huge, tattoos running up and down their length, except for his hands. He was dressed as a civilian, but he didn't do a very good job of it. Even in worn Levi’s and a t-shirt, he looked like a mercenary. Wraparound sunglasses were on top of his head, and a gun was in his hand. He looked unflustered as he took in the other three armed men in the room, positioning himself in front of Adnan.

I sent Hope an accusing look. “Seriously?”

She shrugged. “I’m your twin, Rella. I know what you are going to do. I don’t want you to die doing it. So I called in a favor.”

“Not a favor if it’s family,” Nazir muttered, but his eyes didn’t leave the threats in the room.

“Ace told you, didn't she?” Hope just grinned.

I scowled at the men in the room. “Let’s just all put our guns and stupidly big knives away, okay? Seriously, Rouen, where the fuck were you keeping that thing?”

Rouen just waggled his eyebrows at me, but he made the knife disappear. The other three didn’t make a move to disarm.

“Simmer down guys, we are all friends here.”

I pointed at Blue.

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