Equites : Book 4 of the Heku Series by T.M. Nielsen Read Free Book Online

I
know.”
    Quinn left, and Emily watched him go
and then turned back to Chevalier.
    “ Do you need anything?” he
asked.
    “ No,” she sounded
irritated.
    “ Mark’s outside of your
door if you do. I need to go finish some things,” he said, then
kissed her softly and left.
    Chevalier met with Quinn and Maleth in
the ante-chamber off of the Council’s room. He sat down and joined
in the conversation.
    “ He’s gruff, but can he get
information?” Maleth was asking Quinn.
    “ I can train someone if we
need to.”
    “ Who’s on the table?”
Chevalier asked.
    “ We’re talking about Zohn,”
Quinn answered.
    “ I don’t know him,”
Chevalier frowned.
    “ I’ve only heard rumors
that he does interrogations for his coven,” Quinn said.
    “ Why don’t we try him out?
Bring him in and see what information he can get out of the Valle
guards in the interrogation chamber?” Chevalier
suggested.
    Maleth smiled, “That’s a good idea,
actually.”
    “ As long as he doesn’t
question Sotomar or Exavior, that gets a little touchy when
diplomatic relations are involved,” Quinn said.
    “ True,” Maleth
said.
    “ It’s settled then, bring
him in and see what information he can squeeze out of them,”
Chevalier said.
    “ Now the hard part… what do
we do with Exavior and Sotomar?” Quinn asked, sitting back in his
chair.
    Chevalier sighed.
    “ Sotomar is being held on
what charges, exactly?” Maleth asked.
    Quinn grabbed a file, “Unwarranted
acts of war against Council City.”
    “ They will fight the
‘unwarranted’ part,” Maleth said.
    “ Yes, but that’s the
charge.”
    “ Ok, and Exavior?” Maleth
asked.
    “ That one’s tricky,” Quinn
said. “There’s actually no law against assaulting a mortal, or a
Winchester.”
    Chevalier frowned, “What about a
member of the Council?”
    “ There is a law against
that, but as she’s the only mortal ever to be bonded with a council
member, they may contest that the rule doesn’t apply,” Quinn
explained.
    “ Get someone to dig through
the books, there has to be something,” Chevalier said,
irritated.
    Quinn nodded, “Already on it. Unless
we can come up with a charge, we’ll have to let him go.”
    Chevalier nodded.
    “ On another note,” Maleth
said. “The Cavalry has requested to be reinstated as Emily’s
personal guard.”
    “ Nothing would please me
more,” Chevalier said, with a slight grin. “However…”
    “ However… she doesn’t want
a personal guard, and we promised not to assign them to her,”
Maleth nodded.
    “ Reason with her, had Mark
not been with her in the helicopter, she would have died,” Quinn
said.
    “ Yeah... reason with her…
that’s not as easy as it sounds,” Chevalier said.
    “ Will Mark try? Right now
she sort of… owes him,” Maleth suggested.
    Chevalier nodded, “I will
ask.”
    “ Are you coming tonight,
then?” Quinn asked, standing up.
    “ Damn, I forgot about
that,” Chevalier said. “Did we promise the three of us would be
there?”
    “ Yes, we did,” Maleth said,
smiling. “It’ll be good for you! We’ll feed on the way
back.”
    Chevalier nodded, “Let me grab my
robe. I’ll meet you at the helicopter.”
    Chevalier nodded at Mark and whispered
instructions to him. Mark agreed, and then Chevalier went into
Emily’s room. She was sitting up on the side of her bed.
    “ I did it!” she said
proudly.
    Chevalier smiled,
“Impressive.”
    “ What’s wrong?” she asked,
watching him.
    “ Why do you assume
something is wrong?”
    “ What bad news did you come
to tell me?”
    Chevalier sighed, “Ok, I forgot that I
have an induction ceremony tonight in Illinois. They asked for the
three Elders to come, and I already promised I’d be
there.”
    Emily laughed, “That’s not bad,
go.”
    “ I hate to leave you,” he
said, sitting by her on the bed.
    “ I’ll be ok, if I get bored
I’ll go visit Exavior in the prison,” she said, and winked at him
when he looked