THE SUBSTITUTE MATE FOR THE ALPHA KING
In that fraction of a second, as all eyes—mine, Renejay’s, the warriors’—flicked involuntarily toward the implanted arrow, Gideon moved.
He didn’t shout a command. He didn’t gesture to his remaining warrior. He simply acted, his movement a blur of brutal, predatory efficiency. He was on Kelra’s flanking archer—the man who had shot the first warrior in the thigh—before anyone could draw a breath. There was no elegant duel, only ruthless economy of motion. A sickening, wet crunch of bone, a choked, gurgling cry that was cut off almost before it began, and the man was down, collapsing in a heap, his bow clattering uselessly on the ground. Gideon stood over him, his expression as impassive as if
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