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

Kyle said, nodding to Mark, and they both blurred out of the
room.
    Silas knocked on the door and came
into the room carrying a pizza box, “Did someone order
pizza?”
    Emily smiled, “How’d you guess it was
me? Allen, come eat!”
    Allen ran out of the bedroom in his
pajamas, and grabbed a slice from Silas before running back into
his room with it. Silas laid the box down on the table and left the
room. Emily picked up a piece, and took a bite of the pepperoni,
olive, and pineapple pizza, and then looked up at Chevalier,
Maleth, and Damon, who were watching her.
    “ Um... did you want some?”
she asked, holding up a slice.
    “ No, I think we’re all
good.” Chevalier smiled.
    “ Then why are you watching
me?”
    “ To try to figure out how
you can eat something so disgusting,” Damon said
casually.
    Emily frowned, “Pizza is not
disgusting. Now that salty coagulated blood… that is
nasty.”
    “ Says the mortal,” Damon
said, raising an eyebrow.
    “ Leech”
    “ Child”
    “ Psychopath.” Emily threw a
slice of pizza at him just as he started to turn away, and it
smashed into the side of his face.
    “ Control your wife,” Damon
said to Chevalier.
    “ Get bent,” Emily yelled at
him.
    Damon threw his hands up in the air,
“What does that even mean!?”
    “ Out,” Chevalier said,
pointing to the door. Maleth took Damon by the shoulder and ushered
him out, then shut the door.
    Emily pushed the control on her
wheelchair and it slid silently over to the gaming console. She
turned it off and then drove over to Chevalier.
    “ It’s actually kind of
fun,” she said.
    Chevalier chuckled and sat down on the
bed, “Did Mark talk to you?”
    Emily nodded, “Yes.”
    “ So… let’s start with the
answer to his request.”
    “ I agreed to two, not four,
and they have to stay outside of my room. They also have to leave
me alone when I go riding,” she said. “Oh, and if I tell them to
get lost, they have to.”
    “ Were those the only
conditions?” he asked, chuckling.
    “ No, it can’t be Damon…
ever.” Emily thought, “I think that was all.”
    “ But you honestly agreed to
two?” Chevalier asked, just to clarify.
    She sighed, “Yes, I did.”
    “ What did you ask in
return… dare I ask?” he asked, watching her.
    “ Well the Wii was one of
them, or, more like something to do. I get a palomino and a paint
stallion when I am up and around. Kyle’s not allowed to give me any
more uninvited shots, and I can talk to Exavior whenever I want,”
she said, listing the bribe.
    “ That’s quite the list,”
Chevalier said.
    “ Yes, well… it was quite
the demand, too,” Emily told him.
    “ True, I don’t like a few
of the listed items though.”
    “ Like what?”
    “ The shots… sometimes they
are necessary, and you are just too stubborn to see that,” he said
matter-of-factly.
    Emily frowned, “That one
stays.”
    “ What about Exavior? Why
would you even want to see him?”
    “ He didn’t know my back was
hurt, nor did he know that picking me up like that aggravated it,”
she said.
    “ He still had no right to
do what he did,” Chevalier said sternly.
    “ I agree.”
    “ Then why?” Chevalier was
confused.
    “ Because… that’s why,”
Emily said bluntly.
    “ That helps.”
    “ Live with it,” she said,
frowning. She drove her wheelchair into the bathroom, and tried to
slam the door, but it hit her back wheels.
    “ No fighting, ok? Let me
bring it up to the Council and see what they say.”
    “ Why do they get a say in
it?” she asked, backing out of the bathroom.
    “ Just the Exavior
thing.”
    “ No Exavior… then no
guard,” she said, and lowered the footrest on her wheelchair.
Chevalier helped her to her feet and turned her around, sitting her
in bed.
    Emily laid back and relaxed on the
bed, “Long day.”
    “ How’s your back?” he
asked, folding her wheelchair out of the way.
    “ Sore, but not too bad,”
she told him, and pulled the covers