“Open up!”
Jump or fight? What’s a stone arrow against an armored man?
Jump or fight? What’s a stone arrow against an armored man?Dahlia grabbed the blanket and dropped the arrow. She wriggled out the window, much clumsier than Paul. She clung to the bars, tried to set her feet like Paul had, and accidently looked down.
“Sweet Quam!” she screamed. Behind her the bed scraped loudly on the floor as the door pushed inward. She screamed again, wordlessly, and jumped.
Hunter broke through the door in time to see a flash of white skirt and blouse and lithe brown limbs and wild flying hair as a woman launched herself out the window.
“Dahlia!” he yelled and was across the room in three steps.
He was in time to see her desperately clutching a blanket, with Paul on the other end, and he was in
