Captured (GATEKEEPERS OF THE GODS #2) by Jennifer Chance EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jennifer Chance
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Tonight wasn’t about doing everything perfectly. Tonight was about
letting go.
Flipping the tsipouro glass over with a flourish and smacking it down
onto the table, Lauren Grant smiled with the first surge of honest pleasure
she’d felt in weeks. After a whirlwind tour of Europe, she and her friends
had returned to Oûros today, reuniting with the last of their group—who
was also the soon-to-be newest member of the Oûros royal family.
Lauren loved Emmaline like a sister, but she’d only been trapped behind
the palace walls for a few hours before she’d started getting antsy, too
jittery in her own skin. She’d had to work way too hard to find this dive bar
in the seaside paradise of Timiménos, and harder still to ditch her friends
and the persistent tagalongs from the palace security. But it was worth it.
She’d spent most of her life under the careful watch of others, and that
hadn’t kept her safe. For safety, she’d had to rely on herself. Same for
having fun.
Two men and one woman were left facing her across the table. The
woman listed to the side, supported by her husband, who kept shaking his
head and grinning. The pile of cash in the center of the table was barely
enough to buy a pair of shoes, but cash was never the goal anyway. It was
simply a way to keep score.
The goal was to be the last woman standing.
“Another!” Lauren called out, and a cheer went up from the crowd
circling the tiny table, along with laughter and catcalls, the usual fare of
late-night drinking contests. The waitress moved forward, a new round of
tsipouro at the ready, but the husband waved her off as his wife slumped
fully against him.
That left two.
Lauren smiled saucily at the duo. She was almost certain they were
brothers, which didn’t bode well for her. They were big men, swarthy, their
Greek heritage not a distant echo but evident in every line of their sun-worn
faces and thick, dark hair. These were the true backbone of the
Mediterranean, not the people living in the vaunted castle on the hill, where
her dear friend Emmaline was being courted by an actual prince. Hell, not
even courted. She was going to marry the guy. And that was cause for
celebration.
“Yamas!” She raised her glass with the word to another round of
applause. Close enough to the Oûrois equivalent of “cheers,” her lapse into
Greek made her competitors eye each other smugly. The three of them tilted
the tsipouro back, and the potent grape liquor washed down Lauren’s throat
in a fiery line of absolution. The distilled spirits might have been made of
the dregs of the wine-making process, but it definitely packed a punch.
As she crashed her glass down on the table and more money changed
hands, she saw him.
It didn’t take much. A shift of the crowd in exactly the right way, the
right-dodging face that should have dodged left. She didn’t squint into the
gloom surrounding their table to make sure, because she didn’t have to. The
man was Dimitri Korba, ranking captain of the Oûros National Security
Force
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