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caressed
her lips with his.
"You know this one," she accused as she opened her eyes, smiled mistily at
him,
and then stretched and whispered hoarsely. "And Sleeping Beauty awakens to
true loves
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first kiss. The beginning."
After three seconds of stunned silence, everyone began laughing, talking,
crying
and congratulating one another and in general, acting as if she had left the
room.
"Water, please," she croaked, completely ignored.
"Water," she asked again even louder. Nothing.
"Zorroc, water now!" she blasted into his mind. He finally rushed to do her
bidding.
* * * *
"Where did you find her?" Zorroc demande d. He could not remember the last
time he slept and now he had been summoned to direct the interrogation of
Zana.
"In the Women Dorm, she had not been expecting us; we found her inflagrante
delicto with Sandra," Prolinc commented with a cynical smirk. "I consider you
most
fortunate for escaping that one."
"Both of them, you mean. Why did it take so long to capture her?" Zorroc
asked.
Prolinc shrugged and admitted, "We have held her for three days deciding she
could wait, while Catarina could not. Now that she is out of danger and your
heir is safe,
your judgment and questions will be wiser."
He was right of course. He almost looke d forward to his final confrontation
with
the House of Tinz.
"Ah Divo, I see you are ready to greet your former betrothed. And how is our
little Nadia?" Zana sneered expectantly.
"She does not know," Zorroc mindspoke to Prolinc.
"She knows nothing," he confirmed.
"You tried to kill my sister but like the warped quiver you are, you missed
your
target. As a result you cau sed no ones demise but my fathers& and your own,"
he
conceded sardonically.
Zana started. She had expected rage , tormented accusations and dementia,
anything but his calm façade of relaxed contro l. She grew enraged but
continued to
smile. "You should thank me, Zorroc, for making you Divo. Of course, that
had not
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exactly been my plan, my father should have succeeded yours, but I was not
quite fast
enough with his demise while you, my betrothe d, proved too fast. I did not
realize the
inroads you had made in assuming your father's duties. In truth, I
considered you no
more than a pampered boy. No one was mo re surprised than I when you ascended
to
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Divo. I should have finished your father a fu ll year earlier but I di d not
want the poison
detected, a small miscalculation but one that would have been easily remedied
with our
mating. You see, as soon as I had conceive d an heir, you would have met with
a fatal
accident, leaving my father as temporary Divo until my child could inherit the
title." She
expelled a sigh, "I guess it is too much to ask that your mouse of a mate was
the one who
ingested the poison; that would have been truly lovely."
As Zorroc began to lunge, Prolinc telepathed, "It is just what she wants and,
the
only stinger she has left. Do you want to swell with her barb?"
Zorroc immediately drew back, once ag ain grateful for Prolinc's timely
intervention. "Do you have any last words before your execution?"
"You may have killed my father but I ca nnot die," she stated, with insane
certainty. Before he could r eact, a fireball of kinetic en ergy came
hurtling toward him
only to disappear inches from his face with Zana's incineration.
Zorroc turned and stared open mouthed at his friend.
Prolinc shrugged and crossed his arms in front of his massive chest. "She was
not
immortal, after all," he stated smugly, then smiled and added, "I believe
your mate is
awaiting you and I too am expected elsewhere."
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Chapter Twenty
"How far out are they?" Zorroc demande d as he entered the makeshift Strat-
room. He had been sleeping soundly with Catarina on his mat, where she
belonged,
curled into him like a kitten when the alarm sounded.
In the week following her staged awaken ing, Cat rapidly gained the weight
needed to nourish their offspring and with it, the return of her color and
energy. She
demanded answers about the poison, the health of her offspri ng and the
status of Zana.
She guiltily admitted relief upon hearing of her demise and expressed surprise
that Nadia
had been the target. Who could harm someone so sweet natured and
intrinsically kind?
Zana had been like a termite infested tree looking fine and healthy on the
outside but
completely rotted inside. Nadia, he confide d, did not seem to garner that
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