Chapter ONE - Weebly

as she burst out laughing.
“You would have paid me again, wouldn’t you?”
she said breathlessly.
Ethan looked back at Kelf, who grinned at him from
behind the bar. Ethan leveled a finger at him and the
man threw back his head and laughed.
“He promised me he would keep that quiet,” Ethan
said as Kannice sat down across from him.
“Kelf works for me, not for you. Besides, I saw him
putting the coins in the till and…” She trailed off, her
smile vanishing as she noticed the welt on his head.
“What’s happened now?”
“Sephira and her men.”
“They beat you again?” Her eyes fell to his shoulder.
“And is that blood on your coat?”
He nodded.
“A knife?”
“A bullet, actually.”
“A bullet!” she repeated, so loudly that others
paused in their conversations.
“It just grazed me,” he said, speaking softly.
“Does it hurt?”