Claimed (GATEKEEPERS OF THE GODS #3) by Jennifer Chance EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jennifer Chance
- Language: English
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Nicki Clark inched her fingers along the thick ridge of the stone wall,
grateful as always that the capital city of Oûros had a deep and abiding
love for ornamental frescoes over every door, window and empty roofline.
She hadn’t tried escaping the palace at this particular point before, but the
descent so far had been easy.
Getting down the last several feet would be more of a trick.
“One…two…” she muttered, planting her right foot solidly as she eased
her way down. She didn’t have to jump the entire distance, not yet. The
wall was smoother below this point, but it was nevertheless hewn out of
thousands-year-old chunks of stone. She could keep going for at least
another yard, then drop. Her shoes were sturdy and her grip strong. Besides,
she’d already done this a dozen times since she’d first been trapped inside
the gilded palace of Oûros like a caged lion.
She shimmied downward, her heart rate picking up. She’d only
glimpsed this specific four feet of wall from down the alley when she’d
been out shopping the day before with Emmaline, Frani, and Lauren. It’d
looked promising, but the space below her was currently hung with early
morning shadows, and she couldn’t see beyond the next small jut of stone.
She swung a foot out experimentally—
And nearly fell off the wall when it was forcibly stopped by someone’s
hard grasp. A grasp that was infuriatingly familiar.
Nicki gave her foot a hard shake. “Back off, Stefan.”
The diplomatic ambassador of the royal family of Oûros—and hello, a
demigod, whatever the hell that meant—held fast.
“If you insist on clambering over walls to escape the confines of the
royal palace, you should at least do a better job picking your locations,”
Stefan said in his cool, superior voice. When he wanted, like now, he could
speak English without so much as a trace of the thick accent she’d heard
him use when he spoke his native tongue. As usual, she wished he would
stick to Oûrois so she didn’t have to listen to his complaints about every
detail of her existence.
“So far as I can tell, there’s nothing beneath me but you. And if you
have your hand on my foot, it’s not a far drop. So go away.”
“I’ll catch you.”
Nicki took a moment to rest her head against the cool stone. Solid rock
was more reasonable than Stefan when he got that tone. She knew it well,
having heard it virtually every time they’d spoken in the past few weeks.
From practically the first time they’d met during Emmaline’s epic fallingin-love-with-a-fairytale-prince adventure, he’d formed completely pointless
and aggravating opinions about what was appropriate for her. Which would
have been nervy enough, except the guy wasn’t exactly in a position to
judge.
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