Chapter 15: Bliss & Bitterness
Kia gazed in soft wonder, her heart full to bursting with love for the tiny bundle sleeping in her arms. “Madaxshia,” she crooned under her breath, her lips gently kissing the soft blonde head. She thought of Fiata and sent a silent thank you to the faithful dragoi.
Almost immediately after the assassin’s attack, Ambuya had appeared, limping and wounded, shot by one of the men she’d led away from Kia.
“Don’t worry, they might have hit me, but I killed them,” Ambuya ground out between clenched teeth.
While Kultaseni fetched the medkit, Kia couldn’t help but notice the speed at which the flow of blood ceased. Ambuya was keeping another secret; she carried nanobots. She and her daughter had been members of the team developing them but she had been off-world
