Wedding Knight: a Liar's Club novella by Celeste Bradley

Author:Celeste Bradley [Bradley, Celeste]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Knight was frantic. Bettina had disappeared from one moment to the next. He’d followed her when she’d passed him but the throngs of Londoners enjoying a bit of afternoon shopping had concealed her petite form almost immediately.

When he’d retreated into the shop it had occurred to him that she was quite right. If he told her of the embarrassments and humiliations he’d suffered in his past, she would be much more likely to conform to his wishes. After all, she was not cruel. In her finer moments, she was very nearly agreeable. A slight smile had crossed his face when he’d thought of dinner the previous night. If nothing else, she was stimulating company.

He would tell her just as soon as he could find her. He’d thought he’d glimpsed her standing a bit above the crowd, looking for him, but then she’d disappeared once more.

This wasn’t the most dangerous section of the city, but neither was it perfectly safe. The very people who were attracted to spend their blunt here became the attraction themselves to those who did not wish to work for their wages. Cutpurses and pickpockets abounded, while even more unsavory characters moved in the shadows and alleyways.

As Knight hovered near where he had last seen Bettina, he noticed just such an alleyway. But his sometimes overly clever bride would never enter such a perilous place. He would have wagered his estate on it — until he heard her voice, high and angry, coming from just that alleyway.

“You eloped?” Despite Aunt Clara’s lessons, Kitty dropped her defenses to spin around in shock. She realized her mistake immediately, but Shovel Hands was faster. His thick arm came around her throat.

As much as she wanted it, vengeance on Bitty would have to wait. A girl had her priorities. Like breathing. Kitty swept her knife upward in a blind slash. The giant twisted sideways and she hit nothing but air. She tried again, but her throat was in agony and her knees had developed the oddest weakness. Through bulging eyes, she saw Bitty overwhelmed and disarmed by the other two men.

The two ruffians pulled Bitty farther down the alley, into the shadows. Kitty squirmed in the giant’s grasp, but she couldn’t seem to connect with anything meaningful, although at one point her knife did come back streaked with crimson.

Bitty’s squeals rose to a fever pitch. Kitty’s sight was beginning to dim. Swift and queasy certainty struck. She and her sister would not survive.

A demon came roaring down the alley. A darkly handsome demon with eyes of obsidian and rage.

Knight grabbed a handful of the brute who was choking his woman and spun the bastard around. Bettina staggered away, stumbling to her knees, chest heaving. Knight’s need to run to her vied with his urge to kill something. The giant chose for him.

With great fists like hams, the ruffian swung at Knight. He ducked most of the blows, took one jarring knock to the shoulder, and managed to get in a few right hooks of his own.

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