Название: Blood of the Sorceress
Автор: Maggie Shayne
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
isbn: 9781472005830
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It happened so fast. Blood from Balthazorus’s neck sprayed like water from an elephant’s trunk, and Demetrius’s arms flew up in front of his face as its warmth spattered him. The man he’d sworn to serve, his friend, dropped to his knees, one hand grasping uselessly at his blood-pulsing throat, his mouth working soundlessly, eyes wide with shock.
Demetrius moved forward, falling to his own knees. The knife fell from his numb hand. “No. No, I didn’t mean—”
The King toppled sideways and lay still, and the blood flow slowed as his body emptied itself. Only then did the guards snap out of their shocked paralysis. One shouted, “Fetch the high priest,” and another brought the hilt of his sword down across the back of Demetrius’s head.
A soft hand patted the back of Demetrius’s neck and snapped him out of the vision or memory or whatever it had been.
“Are you all right, my son?” Father Dom asked.
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