I have a special treat for you tonight - an excerpt from DEVILS DOMINION, slated for release October 11. If you havent reserved your copy yet, hopefully this will make you want to. This is an exceptionally complex tale of a very damaged warrior and the novice nun he kidnaps. He has met his match in her! Read on...! *** “Just kill me now and be done with it, then,” she muttered. “That is why you took me from Alberbury, is it not? To kill me? Then do it and let us be done with this madness.” Bretton continued to stare at her; he was very good and remaining impassive. “Who said anything about killing you?” he asked. “I do not intend to kill you, at least not at the moment.” Allaston sighed heavily. “Is that so?” she asked, turning to look at him with dark-circled eyes. “If you do not intend to kill me, then you must intend to punish me somehow for what my father did to your family. That is the only reason I am here, is it not? I will say again that if you intend to torture me, get on with it. Your hesitation nor your mind games do not impress me. If you are going to make me suffer, then do it.” Bretton met her gaze unflinching. It was difficult to tell if she had angered him with her slander against his behavior because he hadn’t reacted one way or another. The man had a good deal of self-control; that was clear. After a moment, he folded his big arms across his chest. “I am not intending to impress you or tease you,” he said. “But you want to know why you are here; now you know.” Allaston shook her head, her dark hair stringing and dirty along her cheeks. “You have told me that my father killed your family,” she said, “but you have not told me why I am here. What do you intend to do with me?” She had a point. Bretton cocked an eyebrow. “That should be obvious,” he said. “I intend to use you to get to your father.” Allaston stared at him; then, she burst out in weak, taunting laughter. Illness and fatigue had weakened her manner and she found she had little control over what she said. She felt so terrible that it didn’t matter any longer. She’d spent three weeks in this hellish hole; the only way out was death and she was coming to welcome it. She was so very, very tired. “Is that it?” she asked. “You intend to use me as bait? Lure my father to his doom? He is too smart for that and too smart for you. You have wasted your time, knight, and now you would waste my life with your foolish plan. He will never come. You will have to think of something else if you plan to engage my father.” Bretton didn’t react for a moment and Allaston didn’t particularly care one way or the other. She coughed heavily after the laughter faded and averted her gaze once more, too sick to give in to the fear that had clutched at her these many weeks. Now that she knew why she was here, it all seemed so foolish and wasteful. As she lost herself in a powerful coughing fit, Bretton broke from his stance. One minute he was standing near the cell door and in the next, he was unsheathing a sharp dirk that was strapped to his left forearm. Allaston saw the flash of the knife as he descended on her, flinching away from him just as he grabbed her hair. He snatched the entire bunch of her dark hair, which hung loose to her knees and, looping the mass in his fist, he used the dagger to cut through the loop and therefore cut off about two feet of her hair. Allaston gasped as she watched the man come away with a big fist-full of her hair. She grabbed at her remaining strands to see how much she had cut off and was met by blunt-cut ends that were about the length of her buttocks. Her hair had been very long before and was now just simply long, glorious strands of liquid silk. Her eyes flew to Bretton accusingly and he met her gaze, as impassive as always. “We shall see how foolish my plan is when your father receives your hair as proof that I hold his daughter captive,” he said, sounding rather confident. “We shall see if that brings him to my doorstep.” *** amazon/Devils-Dominion-Kathryn-Veque-ebook/dp/B00NPE4TEQ/ref=la_B004QF87Q4_1_47?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412308021&sr=1-47
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:48:57 +0000
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