Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor
READING AGE 16+
Jade Darcy, a computer-augmented mercenary, turns down what she considers a suicide assignment: traveling to an enslaved world to assassinate one of its military leaders. But then she learns there's someone looking for her--someone with the potential to expose her mysterious past, with possibly fatal results. All of a sudden, a suicide mission looks positively appetizing....
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Chapter 16: Knight’s Move
Jade slept for fourteen solid hours, and woke stiff and sore. She was startled to see Cyclad Arik standing over her in battle posture, then realized that was how the creature slept. Cyclad, too, had survived this folly. Jade closed her eyes and let out a deep prayer of gratitude to all the gods of war, of m……
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