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He realised his hawkstone was still shining over the firmament and dimmed it with a sigh.
‘We’ve been rumbled,’ he rasped. ‘Let’s go.’
Still, he discerned Sana’a’s fury bubbling under her skin, throbbing away as they soared into mist, fog and barrenness.
Chapter 31
They returned to the kíota late that night.
‘Tis the best place for us to be,’ Killen murmured as they landed in the ethereal courtyard.
‘Given the word is out and my anonymity is no longer assured,’ he added.
He said it without glancing at Sana’a and led the way inside, his body stiff.
Sana’a realised he was reacting to her coldness with an ice storm of his own.
‘Fokk,’ she whispered to herself.
This was why she loathed entanglements while on mission.
That said, Killen Sable was more than entanglement; he was fast becoming her reason for breathing.
‘Hungry?’ he murmured, heading towards the kitchens.
Her tummy growled.
Traitor.
He flicked his eyes over her. ‘So you’ll eat if I prepare something?’
She nodded with great reluctance, still pissed off.
He rustled up a simple meal of grains, fresh vegetables and fragrant roasted cold cuts.
They ate in silence until Sana’a glanced up to find Killen leaning back against a wall fitment.
His hands were crossed at the chest, his ubiquitous klaw in his mouth as he gazed at her with hooded eyes.
She ignored him, pushing away the hair plastered to her scalp and shaking her mane out.
‘How long will you punish me?’ he murmured.
She shrugged, jaw clenching.
‘You’ve every right to be livid at me.’
‘I am, and won’t hide it to make you feel better.’
‘Good, I don’t want any games between us, just raw honesty.’
She sighed. ‘I also don’t fokkin’ mince words, Sable. What you did was hurtful. You chose your needs above mine, and that sucks balls.’
He moved to situate himself before her. ‘I apologise. Didn’t mean to distress you, k’hanys.’
She gave him a hard, suspicious stare. ‘Endearments won’t get you anywhere.’
‘I’m sorry if I hurt you,’ he rasped, ‘and I deserve every fokkin’ shitty opinion you have of me now.’
