Two Worlds of Provenance by Angelina J. Steffort

Author:Angelina J. Steffort [Steffort, Angelina J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MK
Published: 2019-08-31T05:00:00+00:00

“How did you find us?” Maray had gained her composure again.

They were sitting at the dining table after a long discussion about what they should do next. Langley had a clear idea, but none of them knew if they liked it.

Maray’s eyes lingered on Jemin’s slender hands. His long fingers, dusty from sleeve to fingernail, were playing with the purple crystal from the blood test Corey had performed.

“I got this from Corey’s to track you.” He glanced up at her, looking as if he was about to say something entirely different. His hair had come out of the small ponytail she’d seen on him before and was hanging loosely into his face. He didn’t look away this time but scrutinized her face, an absent expression decorating his elegant features. Even with the dirty shirt and pants and his rogue hair, his beauty shone through.

Maray felt the impulse to let herself be self-conscious about her sweaty shirt and her tangled hair but reminded herself that this wasn’t about what he saw when he looked at her but about bringing down and evil monarch—even if she was her grandmother.

Gerwin shifted in his chair. “I don’t like this,” he commented on his own thought process. “Me going back alone, leaving the two of you unprotected…”

“We are not unprotected.” Maray nodded at the dagger she had picked up from the living room table. Her knife was in her belt.

“I’ll protect her, Ambassador Johnson.” Jemin had snapped into that strangely polite tone with her father sometime during their long conversation. She couldn’t put her finger on it, but it seemed as if he was somehow trying to please her father. Yet, every time the discussion circled into the next round, it seemed to get more difficult for him.

“Not that I don’t trust you, but you have kidnapped my daughter before,” Gerwin reminded him, and the corners of Jemin’s mouth twitched downward.

“Not this time,” Jemin objected. “I’ll wait as planned, but I’ll come alone.”

Gerwin bit his lip in a nervous gesture Maray had never seen on him.

The original plan had been a highly risky one. Gerwin was supposed to travel ahead and infiltrate court to find out the whereabouts of Rhia and meet with Langley in secret; while Maray and Jemin were to stay exactly where they were for at least twenty-four hours before they followed him to Allinan to meet with Heck and to pretend to deliver Maray to Scott so they wouldn’t be suspected. Jemin and Heck, Maray had learned, had gotten the assignment of finding the person who looked like the queen, who had been sighted in the palace gardens, and return her into his custody. By the time they’d get there, Langley and Gerwin would have activated enough of the revolutionaries to perform a flash attack on the palace. They needed just enough people to get to the queen’s private chambers, and Jemin and Heck would help the fighters get into the palace.

But now, both her father and Jemin were considering a change of plans that would benefit her safety.

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