“Be careful,” Vasic told Ivy, well aware she had a full measure of the empathic tendency to give too much, even at the cost of her own safety. Slinging on the daypack, Aden led the way out. She’d done that. Zaira didn’t try to come around him; she knew as well as he did that he needed her alive. He and Zaira hadn’t been betrayed from the inside, but this man was a high-level soldier. Never had she failed to include Aden in their new family. There was a corridor outside, but no sounds of machinery—even the hum of background technology or traffic—invaded the room. Aden had just finished packing the supplies when she got back. “Sooner or later, he will succeed or go mad trying, so you’d better decide if you do, in fact, want a prosthetic.”. “You said it—they’re tough. Enter the world of Pure Ones. UK ebook/audio: Feb 23rd, print 25thAust & NZ ebook/audio/print: Feb 23rd, Quiet in Her Bones - International Countdown. This room had no other exits and was created of hard plascrete. That fact had kept her alive up until now, but it wouldn’t last. It was too big on her, and he rolled up the sleeves before she could ask him—Zaira would not want her hands hindered in case of a fight. He wasn’t about to allow her to sacrifice herself for him again. Given the viciousness of the pain feedback to any attempt at using psychic abilities, she could wake to find him burned out, unconscious. People see you and think woman first and soldier second.”. She’d served her purpose. Soon as she’d done that, he thrust a solid energy bar at her. Not now, not when he needed to have rock-steady hands and iron focus. Soon as she’d done that, he thrust a solid energy bar at her. Continuing to move toward that door under a covering hail of gunfire, the dead guard’s body absorbing the hits, Aden waited until he was almost at the corridor junction, then shoved the corpse onto the dead man’s former comrades. Side burning and head thumping, she continued to fire even as she slid to the floor, but her bullets eventually ran out. It was why they all fought so furiously for him and with him. You never have been.” Another strained breath. Aden will cross any line to keep his people safe for this new future, where even an assassin might have hope of a life beyond blood and death and pain. To be Psy was to be cursed. We are not only assassins trained to die and to kill. “If you’re intending to interrogate me,” he said, confirming the presence of another guard outside when that guard’s shadow hit the opposite wall, “you should know Arrows are trained to die rather than break.”. A ruthless vampire king. Barely four feet tall back then, at least a foot shorter than him, and yet she’d said, “I won’t run anymore. Silence or not, it mattered that Aden would. The heavy hooded jacket she found hanging on a hook on the wall must’ve belonged to the short, slight guard who’d run outside after Aden. A knife blade that slid in through muscle and bone and heart to make him bleed. 12. “Either we both go or neither one of us goes. “Got them,” he said a couple of minutes later. At long last, he has reclaimed his soul, his body healed by an unknown savior. If you haven't please do. As a result of Zaira’s absence, he was in a violent rage. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Especially Alejandro—he’s not functional without her.”. “Your temperature is slightly elevated. Something went wrong. 5.5b “Movie Night” – free short story Being bonded to an empath had given him new eyes; he’d begun to glimpse odd inconsistencies in Aden’s interactions with Zaira, things that didn’t line up with his behavior when it came to the rest of the squad. He was too irrational to be sensible. Don't miss this scorching hot vampire romance! They may not have thought of it yet, but if there are trackers, they could activate them remotely.”, Aden took out every piece of technology they’d carried this far, venturing to the river’s edge to throw them in the water before returning. Time to talk books! Save 90%. “Everyone in the squad knows that—now someone outside the squad has figured it out.”. ADEN WOKE ON a cold, hard floor, his head throbbing. Vasic wasn’t officially Aden’s second in command, had never believed he was stable enough for the position, but his squadmates had always treated him as if he was—and now, the mantle was beginning to fit. This world is different from … Still can't see it? Aden memorized the location of the kick, made a mental note to check Zaira for further injuries after they were free and the man who’d kicked her was dead. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Those who believed the latter thought he planned to take advantage of the confusion engendered by the breakdown of a way of life that had lasted more than a hundred years. Two of the camo-gear-clad men ran out, leaving two in the room. “You’re friends,” he said, the realization a surprise. She’d been invited to Vasic and Ivy’s home more than once since the wedding, had thrown a stick for their inquisitive dog, had even helped Ivy repair a trellis the other woman used for climbing berries of some kind. Aden decided he would correct her about his Silence later. “Conserve your strength. Fourth injured. As a result of the work she’d done protecting empaths, thus interacting with them, one of those fragile golden threads had reached out to her and, despite her instinctive defensive reaction, she’d allowed it to connect. His only answer was a pulse so faint, he could barely feel it. He had to go deeper. The psychic attack that accompanied the weapons fire was haphazard and not as powerful as it should’ve been for the number of men he’d seen. He checked the hide, gathered three more heavily leafed branches to cover the spots where water might get in, then slid inside himself. Colorful and lovable characters. “You will stay,” he ordered, his lips against her ear. She was independent and strong and she had a conscience, but she was also damaged in a way that might cause her to make certain decisions that could not be unmade. I won’t try to leave. “How were you shot?” he asked, wiping away the memories of how close to death she’d come the last time. He and Zaira hadn’t been betrayed from the inside, but this man was a high-level soldier. It’s as if they literally just shoved it in.”. Even after months of sufficient food and daily outdoor exercise, she’d still been so skinny and small and with such anger inside her. and found his wrist gripped in a punishing hold. Please try your request again later. It was no sacrifice, not when the end result was that some of that life spilled over onto Zaira and her brethren. He grabbed the gun Zaira shoved across the floor, having taken it from the guard she was choking to death using her thighs. Nothing but trees in every direction . Aden could be more silent than any other Arrow she knew, even the most capable assassin. That didn’t mean it was an easy decision. He’d stay awake, maintain a watch, but he needed to be close to Zaira. He really was a very bad leader in that respect—and it was why his Arrows gave him their unswerving dedication. Having maintained an ear on the other person breathing in the room, he crawled silently toward the rasp of sound. Ivy leaned back to reach up and stroke his hair off his face, her gaze potent with emotion. There was a corridor outside, but no sounds of machinery—even the hum of background technology or traffic—invaded the room. All of them rejects from the world, from their families. If her hearing was acute, Aden’s night vision was just as sharp. It took three careful series of cuts to get the bone out. “Oh, you’ll talk. Holding the penlight clamped between his teeth again, he used the laser at the lowest possible setting to burn the “legs” off the implant. It lay in almost a straight line from their current position. With luck, their pursuers would think they’d both slid right into the river. And they must survive. she would’ve liked to see him make it. Vasic gave a short nod before looking toward Mica. “I think I saw a jacket that might not swamp you.”. The guard fell without making a sound, but he had his hand on the trigger as he died; the gun spit fire, the bullets hitting a small steel grille that covered an air vent. Bandage we found inside was soaked with fresh blood. . Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2019. She was a murderer who’d never felt an ounce of remorse for her crime. “This will hurt.”, She reached out to grip one of the tree roots that had curled out over the earth before flowing back in. And much as Zaira liked to tell him to leave her behind, he knew damn well she’d never leave him behind. It was here that many of their “dead” had come, the ones deemed useless by Ming and targeted for execution. It was useful when he had healthy backup, but it became a liability in a combat situation. Conscious they didn’t have much time, Aden left her for a second—she swayed but stayed upright—and ripped the ski masks off the two men. What were you saying about the angle being impossible? She’ll die soon and save us the trouble of hunting her down.”, “Arrows don’t worry about camaraderie so she’s probably already been dumped to survive on her own.” The group of elite assassins was composed of piercingly intelligent and highly trained rabid dogs who’d do anything to complete a mission—or to survive capture. She could never shrug off the coat of Silence without becoming that pitiless killer again, but she’d thought maybe she could take part on the shadowed periphery. She nodded, but told him to continue with her eyes. “You should’ve toppled me from the leadership years ago,” he said as he moved to lift up the bandage, see what he could make out of the wound. Making sure the hood of her jacket covered her head, he curled his body around hers in an effort to keep her warm, his mind alert. Mass Market Paperback – December 29, 2015, Previous page of related Sponsored Products. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Nodding thanks for the jacket and gloves, he snapped closed the clasps on the daypack and began to get into the jacket. If he’d been wearing his uniform top, this would’ve been impossible, that material designed not to tear. To be in that cave was to be protected—and to be trapped. Please try again. Shards of Hope by BananaCrunchDev. “Some of the older Arrows occasionally do their best to make her brain explode.”. He and Zaira were all but silent, each movement careful, but a guard saw him as he looked around the corner. “I need to test if my M abilities even work.” No matter if it was about healing the body, not the mind, it still required a psychic energy burn. What he discovered instead was a raised bump close to the lowest part of his skull, near the area that housed the cerebellum and beyond it, the brain stem. About Shards of Hope. Driven by love for the very children they were condemning to a loveless existence, the Psy accepted the harsh tenets of the Protocol, accepted the hope held out by their leaders. By the time the laser flickered, she wasn’t leaking fresh blood. No one else might mourn or care for an Arrow, but Aden would. “Even before that experience, I wouldn’t have left you behind. “Sahara says Kaleb’s continuing to try, too, but he’s getting nowhere.”, That was bad. Side burning and head thumping, she continued to fire even as she slid to the floor, but her bullets eventually ran out. What he discovered instead was a raised bump close to the lowest part of his skull, near the area that housed the cerebellum and beyond it, the brain stem. But the decorative frame hanging by the fireplace with shards of glass still clinging in the corner is proof. Aden’s mind was whole, but whatever it was that had been done to his brain via the barely healed incision he’d discovered, it had screwed up his psychic wiring. He’d come back for her. The medics had fixed the eye, the other injuries, but they’d left him in brutal pain and half-blind for days, the next round of training based on exposing psychological weaknesses. “I didn’t know it was you, but now that I do, I think our captors plan to use me to break you. The “smoldering heat, epic romance, and awesome action”* of Nalini Singh’s New York Times bestselling series continues as two Arrows … Aden didn’t disagree because she was right. Zaira would’ve released him and chanced the water except that he locked one hand around her ankle. No one he recognized, but he had faces now. Strip the guards, put on as many extra warm layers as you can; ditch my jacket and find a rainproof one.”. “Must be a new bullet designed to penetrate our armor,” she said through what sounded like gritted teeth. It has been four months since the fall of Silence, the protocol that bound the Psy race to a cold, emotionless existence. “Whatever is in our heads is interfering?”. There would be no dissension, not on this point. The wound finally closed, if raggedly so, he put a small bandage over it, then got rid of the blood-soaked bandage below her neck by placing it, his gloves, and any other detritus in a small disposal bag and putting that in an unused pocket of the daypack. Their one advantage was that any other guards wouldn’t have heard the altercation—all the weapons were silenced and Aden and Zaira had kept their voices low throughout. SHE MOANED, BUT Aden knew it was for effect. Mine to Possess “The door,” he said to Zaira, pointing out their escape route. Normal things that had, for a short window of time, made Zaira feel normal, too. I just felt that Zaira's story was in danger of tipping over into 'misery porn' at times. “We can’t go far in the dark anyway, especially with no landmarks.”, Zaira knew that had she been uninjured, they would’ve kept going. Aden fired to silence the guard’s shout of alarm. What he didn’t realize until he hauled Zaira to her feet and felt the wetness on her side, the scent of iron suddenly bright, was that the man had also jabbed his hand into her wound, doing further damage. Shards of Hope A Samaritan's Purse microenterprise project helps women who lost everything in the Japan tsunami Beautiful jewelry was lined up on display as … First I’ll make you watch as she’s sexually tortured by my human compatriots, then I’ll ask them to do the same to you. Their unknown captors had the technology to do brain surgery advanced enough to block psychic abilities, yet they’d left Zaira badly hurt and in pain? Shards of Hope is written in third person with a moderate amount of sexual content and adult wording throughout with a HEA ending. Falling in love with a space pirate was never in the plan. “And Zaira.” Ivy’s hand fisted against his chest. Vasic wanted to free the other male, but he also knew that to be an impossibility. He’d think nothing of killing tens if not hundreds of people in his hunt to find Zaira.” The commander was Alejandro’s sole priority but not in a healthy way. The truth was that Zaira had never needed Silence. just as if they’re lost.”. Aden slipped and slammed down to his knees . She’d done that. Right now, intel wasn’t as important as survival. That done, he snapped on a pair of disposable surgical gloves. Afterward, he placed her head on his thigh and kept his finger on the pulse in her neck, under the hood he’d tugged up over her head so she wouldn’t lose heat through her skull. Aden was stronger, better than both of them, and he followed his own path. Sue came to Ishinomaki to help with disaster relief. “Has to be, given the lack of a psychic component to his attack and the other guard’s boast about his human compatriots.”. “We’re in mountainous and heavily forested terrain, low visibility because of thick cloud cover and the fact it’s full night,” he told her. When he slammed through the door, it was into a sullen darkness, the sky above starless and heavy with clouds that threatened to crash open at any moment. “I can sense it from here—Zaira is his only anchor to sanity and he’s terrified he’s falling back into the abyss. “We need to move.” He explained why as she sat up, a slight catch in her breath the only indication of pain. Seeing his point, she headed in that direction, slip-sliding down the hill covered with small flowering shrubs and leaving a visible trail on purpose. She dropped the weapons to show her captors she had nothing, was no threat. Raw hope grew in his heart, dulled only by the dark fact that both Aden and Zaira were missing. Lifting and firing it in a single smooth motion, he hit the second guard dead center in the forehead. Today, the smoke has dissipated, the mirrors have shattered. “If you can get me a weapon,” Zaira said, “I’ll cover you as you go. It was possible to wipe someone that deeply from the official record, but it took considerable power and access. Perhaps that exposed a flaw in the heart of the Protocol and perhaps it was simply a sign that even Arrows had a soul. and gunfire behind him. Zaira made her way to that room while Aden stuffed the daypack with the last supplies and extra ammunition. The puppet master couldn’t know when his slaves might collapse from the strain of fighting against psychic coercion. “We’ll go together.”. Anthologien, © 2003 - 2020 Nalini Singh. she would’ve liked to see him make it. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. $3 for 3 months. Fire crews from Mansfield and Shelby poured water on the flames from the north … SPRING IS IN full flower in the year 2082. SHARDS OF HOPE Guild Hunter Series ANGELS' BLOOD ARCHANGEL'S KISS ARCHANGEL'S CONSORT ARCHANGEL'S BLADE ARCHANGEL'S STORM … He did, his jaw a brutal line. The fact that the top of her head was tucked up against his abdomen should also help her maintain her body temperature. One entered the room earlier, said, ‘He’ll talk or we hurt her,’ to another individual.”, “And you aren’t fully Silent, Aden. 16. ... - 1 Shards … Lightning flashed in the distance but that was the only—fleeting—source of light. “Whatever is in our heads is interfering?”. That didn’t mean the kick hadn’t hurt. “His brain is compromised. “But this one you go to see every week.”. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. “Pain is pain,” he said. Even more, he wanted the laughter for Aden, the joy of figuring out how to navigate this new territory of love and affection and tactile contact that wasn’t about pain or training or anything but pleasure. Bandaging the wound, he found another one of the small, nutrient-rich drinks in the medkit and, lifting up her head, coaxed it down her throat, drop by tiny drop. “If you’re intending to interrogate me,” he said, confirming the presence of another guard outside when that guard’s shadow hit the opposite wall, “you should know Arrows are trained to die rather than break.”. “The kit’s not advanced enough to fully take care of the gunshot injury, but I should be able to stop the major bleeding at least.” He took out a handheld scanner, tried to switch it on. Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh. “Move and I’ll rip out your throat.”, “Zaira,” he said in the same low whisper she’d used. “If there is internal bleeding, it’s not severe yet.” Pressing the bandage back into place, he pulled down her top, then shrugged off the leather jacket he was still wearing and got her into it. Control is power. “Dead. He may not react to empathic help in a predictable way.”, “He’s afraid.” Ivy’s voice held an echo of pain that wasn’t her own. “Yes. That was what he told himself, what he’d always told himself. Dark circles under the translucent copper of her eyes and lines of tension around her mouth, Ivy took the phone from her ear and thrust it into a pocket. “Blitz attack,” he said. Marjorie was an Arrow of old, one who’d helped set the rebellion in place—and who had given up her son to it when he was just a boy. Shards of Hope (book) Author: Nalini Singh Publication date: June 2015 Publication Order: Preceded by Shield of Winter (book) Followed by Allegiance … Not yet, not when so many of his Arrows needed him to remain their leader, alone and strong, but one day in the future, he wanted that intimate, absolute connection with another being. To a desperate people on the verge of a violence-fueled extinction, it was the only hope. “One Psy, two humans.”. That didn’t mean the kick hadn’t hurt. Vasic had never known Aden to be lost. Vasic knew Mica wasn’t worried about the bystanders—they were too far away to catch anything. She bled and it was a clean red, no sign of deep infection. As if the other person was trying to maintain silence, was unable to do so for reasons Aden couldn’t yet identify. I put myself low on the priority list—others on the frontline needed it more.”, Pressing the pads of his fingers on different parts of her abdomen, he asked her to tell him what hurt and what didn’t, and stumbled upon an unbandaged wound on her side. Well trained, like this one, and careful never to take his attention off Aden. “Did the humans show signs of mind control?” Long-term control could leave physical lesions on the brain. They’re saying it doesn’t feel like death . No one else might mourn or care for an Arrow, but Aden would. Aden’s answer was to point down, to what she was just able to make out as flowing water. She knew Aden. This book pulls at your heart strings in every way imaginable. Shards of Hope - Ebook written by Nalini Singh. He wanted that for Aden, wanted him to know what it was to find home in his lover’s eyes. . “Go after the male,” a bearded man commanded two others. “You came back.” No one had ever come back for her for no logical reason. . “I think I saw a jacket that might not swamp you.”. Some would say it also made her a psychopath, but they didn’t understand—unlike a psychopath, Zaira had the capacity to feel the full range of emotions. For the violent, and the insane, and the irreparably broken…like Zaira. Regrettably, the guards appeared to have learned their lesson. Email Ashwini and she'll ensure you're subscribed. “Since I was eight years old,” Vasic said to Ivy, the side of his face pressed to the soft black of her hair, “Aden’s always been there.” A quiet rock that didn’t shift or give way no matter how vicious the deluge. She knows she’s too damaged to return from the abyss. First I’ll make you watch as she’s sexually tortured by my human compatriots, then I’ll ask them to do the same to you. Ignoring them, Zaira and Aden made straight for the cover of the dark green firs that spread out in every direction around them, birch trees with lighter green leaves scattered in among them. He’d been ten years old at the time. That equality was a carefully constructed sham, but the belief was important for the end goal. “I can see it. He was important, Aden; he was the future of every Arrow in the squad and those to come. Squeezing Zaira’s shoulder to warn her, he used the laser again. They even took my boots.”, He shifted so close to Zaira that, under any normal circumstances, he would’ve been invading her personal space. Download for offline reading, … Die. “The risk of death is significant.”, “I’m dying anyway,” she said as rain hit his back, the canopy above not enough to totally shield them, though he angled his body to give Zaira as much protection as possible. Except it appeared even the best teleporter in the Net hadn’t been able to lock on to his face, using it as an anchor to get to him. “I’ll see if I can calm him enough that the process of giving him a sedative doesn’t turn into a bloodbath—and doesn’t cause him even more psychic pain.”. “Listen to me. Marjorie and Naoshi had settled in Venice after their “deaths” in an explosion at sea two decades past, and the compound there wouldn’t have existed without them. Shards of Hope was wonderfully written, … There remained a slim chance that he was wrong, that this was an independent creation, but if he was right, these implants could well have a remote self-destruct built in, as with the original Alliance implants. 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