Scorpio Assassin

Chapter five

Chapter fiveI sat there pretending to think, seeing the pieces on the Jikaida board’s blue and yellow squares, and Chandro’s tipped-over Queen. There was no need to let him see how pleased I was at this turn of events.

I stood up and he lifted his face to stare into mine.

“I accept your offer, San Chandro. Thank you.”

He smiled and looked pleased and relieved. “I am glad. Good. Excellent. Now we can plan how best to circumvent the queen’s enemies.”

The cynical thought occurred to me that now he knew I’d seen off a number of villains who’d run across my path, was he using that word circumvent as a euphemism for a darker thought?

“There are five of us Queen’s Repositers,” he told me. “San Nath the Uttarler is our chief. He tries to be just and fair and finds that hard. San Nalgre Hien-M