Finding the Blood Assassin [Lords of the Expanse 3] (Siren Publishing Allure)
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Authors: Honor James
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Lords of the Expanse 3
Finding the Blood Assassin
Raven Kato takes the assignments no one else will, the suicide missions, the ones with a low probability of success. He doesn’t care about the risks or the chances of survival. He’s all for going out in a blaze of glory. As long as it helps his people and keeps the Vampire race at the top of the food chain, he’s all for it.
Jamison Montague is tired of being called upon to find people. Some folks just don’t want to be found. Her newest assignment is a prime example of that. Unfortunately she doesn’t have a lot of choice in the matter once she gets a read on her target. But what she ends up being pulled into may very well end not only her career, but her life.
Together this unlikely pair will have to find a way to get along, for they will all too soon have to depend on one another for everything. Not only their survival in a deadly game to which they don’t know the rules, but for their very future and happiness. As danger starts to close in, as their opponents are revealed, and as their hearts become involved, they will have to make the hardest choice of all. Fight for what they want, or give in and give up.
Genre:
Futuristic, Science Fiction, Vampires/Werewolves
Length:
60,379 words
FINDING THE BLOOD ASSASSIN
Lords of the Expanse 3
Honor James
EROTIC ROMANCE
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FINDING THE BLOOD ASSASSIN
Copyright © 2014 by Honor James
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Table of Contents
FINDING THE BLOOD ASSASSIN
Lords of the Expanse 3
HONOR JAMES
Copyright © 2014
Chapter 1
“We’ve received another message.”
“Gods, what is it this time?”
“If we do not find what they want and give it to them the next time, Lord Raven Kato is tortured. Not only will we be viewing it, so will the rest of our people.”
“They have a plan, a very specific one obviously. What we need to figure out is what they hope to gain by us giving over what they are demanding and quit worrying about actually doing it.”
“Should we not be more concerned with getting him back?”
“No. We need to worry about what they know, what he’s told them, and what they plan to do with any of said information. Getting him back is not our primary concern. Ensuring our world is safe from attack is, and always will be, our main concern.”
“Do you honestly believe he would break under any form of torture?”
“There is torture to the body and then there is torture to the soul. Every man has his breaking point, mayhap they found his.”
“I doubt that, this is the Lord Raven Kato. He is not one that will break,” the commander said to his underling, surety in his voice.
“No.” The only man who had yet to speak now stepped forward into the glow of the directional lighting pointed at the table. “One thing I know about him, he has no such weakness. If they know something, they are being fed it from inside these chambers.”
“Impossible!” many voices scoffed with soft, mocking chuckles and clear derision.
“And yet you think the only man to have survived ten years in Syndicate hands, who killed his jailers and made his way home, with more wrong with him than right, would break under a month of such mild tortures?” The derision was clear in the speaker’s voice, it was clear that he trusted the one held, the Lord that they were currently discussing. He knew the Lord Kato, knew that the man would never break under torture, however his brethren didn’t hold such beliefs.
“There is nothing mild about that,” one protested, only to be cut off.
“For you, perhaps. For him it is very mild. I know what he suffered in Syndicate hands hour after hour and that”—he snorted condescendingly at them all with a sneer—“is nothing to a man that literally no longer feels anything.”
“If what you say is true, then…” another murmured softly, as though to speak the words would bring them to fruition.
Nodding, the other Lord hidden in shadows lifted a mocking brow. “We have someone selling out their very people and you’re only just cluing in.”
Not a man there made another protest. There was nothing more they could say to that truth.
* * * *
Lifting his head ever so slightly and slowly, Raven looked around through the slits he made his eyes. Bound by his hands in silver shackles, his wrists were burned badly and his strength was waning. But he was still more dangerous than his captors could ever imagine. At least they had been smart in one regard. They had him hanging over the deep pit with silver-coated spikes several meters below the lip of the pit. A pit that was over forty feet in diameter and an excellent deterrent in place of a live guard. Had he been of the mind to, he could have had a living man release him, but the pit couldn’t be talked into anything.
He was alone. For the moment anyway. But then again he was never truly alone, for they were always watching him on the closed circuit feed. Not moving any more than necessary out of respect for his wrists and the rest of his brutalized body, Raven made a survey of the room. Quickly, he noted the chair to one side as well as the rack they so dearly loved to strap him to for their pleasure. Beyond that the room held nothing else. Odd—very odd. Before, he thought with the barest of frowns, there had been a table, three more chairs, and the equipment to broadcast his “questioning” to the Alliance, the Vampire Nation Alliance. His people. All of that was always in the space with him. To not be there did not bode well, at least for him that was.