Windwalker by Sabrina Flynn

Author:Sabrina Flynn [Flynn, Sabrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781955207171
Publisher: Ink & Sea Publishing

Keys rattled. An oiled door opened, then shut. I sat bolt upright, and tried to leap to my feet. Only the floor lurched and I ended up on my arse.

Wil frowned down at me. He was as clean and fresh as I was disheveled. I spat, aiming for his shiny black boots. Dead on. But his chiseled face didn’t show a reaction. It might as well have been cut from stone.

I glared up at him. A light in the hallway cast shadows over his freshly polished head. He wore a dark longcoat and a red-brocaded waistcoat with an open-collared shirt beneath. A cutlass hung from a wide belt, and his trousers were too fitted for pockets.

I leaned back into a corner. I hoped it looked casual, but really I needed the reassurance of two walls and a floor. “You’re a bastard,” I said.

“I’m also a scoundrel.”

“Where’s Mordecai?” I asked.

“He’s safe.”

“I want to see him,” I demanded.

“Most prisoners grovel and beg for mercy.”

I summoned every fiber of my body that wasn’t sick to the bone and met his amber eyes. “I wasn’t the one gasping for air in the muck with a hole in his lung begging for help.”

A muscle in his jaw flexed. “I haven’t forgotten. For all my ways, I am a man of my word and I believe I promised you masques.”

“So I can buy my freedom from you. Is that it?”

“I need that contract,” he stated.

“Should’ve asked for it instead of assaulting us.”

“Don’t push me, woman.”

“Or you’ll what? Toss me off the nearest tower?”

Wil cocked his head. “Despite what you told me in the lift, I don’t think you’ve ever been to the Above.”

“Why does that surprise you?” I shot back.

“You’re sun-touched. But you have red eyes.”

“So?”

“I’ve never seen a red-eyed sun-touched before.”

I lifted a shoulder. “What of it?”

“You’re a rarity.”

“Look here, Wee Willy, I’m not inclined to be part of your harem.” Fine, all right, maybe I’d read a few of Mordecai’s romance novels.

He snorted. “I’m not inclined to keep one. And if I were, I wouldn’t trust a woman like you in my harem. You’d have the other women staging a takeover in under a day.”

I clicked my mouth shut. That was quite possibly one of the nicest compliments I’d ever received.

“Can you stand?” he asked.

“Of course I can.”

He waited.

“Why should I?”

“Do you want to see Mordecai?”

Keeping the wall firmly at my back, I pushed up with my legs, sliding up the wall. He held out a hand.

“What do you take me for?” I asked.

“A woman in need of support.” He made a beckoning gesture. He had large, calloused hands with a gold signet ring on his index finger. That hand was a good two steps away though. The bastard wasn’t going to make this easy for me. The ground felt like it was heaving. I took one step, then another, and grasped his hand like a lifeline. His grip was like steel, and yet he gently drew me forward. I felt weak as a newborn calf.

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