Chapter fourteen“Come at once!” he’d panted in that pleading voice. Come where did he mean? What did I think I was doing? Couldn’t he see what I was doing? There were three nasty customers and a wounded one thirsting for my blood. In that tiny fraction of time before they reached me I regained my composure and fronted them.
There was absolutely no question of my abandoning these girls now. For one thing the warriors would butcher them out of hand because they had witnessed Tchekedo humiliation at the grubby hands of a mere mercenary.
The steel crossed and screeched, the blades slashed and thrust, and one warrior was down without a throat and I leaped back and nearly went base over apex across that confounded chest.
Staggering up I knocked a sword away, luckily enough catching the flat w
