The Nanny and the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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This way. Hurry,” Sultavi urged.
Joanna clutched her cloak closer to her neck with one hand and tightened her
grip on the little girl with the other.
“Are you sure?” she whispered as Sultavi led them down a back alley in the
warren of buildings that made up the commercial center of Isokau, the main
city in Lord K’herr’s domain.
The market wasn’t asleep—it never truly slept—but at this hour, most of the
activity was concentrated around the bars and the gambling houses. The
shops surrounding them were dark and still.
“I’m sure.” Sultavi spoke with the absolute confidence of a precocious sixyear-old, but Joanna wasn’t convinced.
They had been to the market many times before, but they had always been
accompanied by Lord K’herr’s guards. She was no fan of the big warriors—
they were there to prevent her from escaping as much as to protect Sultavi—
but right now she would have welcomed a few bodies surrounding them as
they hurried down the dark passageway.
But they were all dead, and she and Sultavi were on their own.
A lump formed in her throat. Even though she hadn’t cared for the guards,
they had never treated her badly. With one exception, she thought with a
shudder. And now they were all gone.
Nohta, the captain of the guards, had been the one to rouse her a short time
ago, thrusting a confused Sultavi into her arms.
“Take the girl. We have to go.”
She hadn’t argued, pausing only long enough to throw a cloak over her
nightclothes before lifting the girl into her arms. Sultavi had already been
wrapped in a dark uniform shirt, her face pale and scared.
“What’s wrong?” she whispered as Nohta set off at a rapid pace through the
extensive gardens that were part of the House Sodan compound. She could
hear the sounds of fighting in the distance and see flames burning at the rear
of the main building.
“Father is dead,” Sultavi said, a tear rolling down her cheek. Her body
quivered in Joanna’s arms, but she seemed to understand the need for silence.
“We were betrayed,” Nohta said grimly.
Her mind flew back to the previous evening. Sultavi had been dressed in her
finest clothes and taken off to some type of ceremonial banquet for a visiting
relative—a cousin of some kind. Joanna had been forbidden to accompany
her, but she’d been waiting when the little girl returned, tired and grumpy.
The ceremonial outfit was uncomfortable, the food had been “yucky,” and
she didn’t like her father’s visitor.
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