her into the opposite wall. Since she didn’t have a good grip on the woman’s arm, she backed away and waited. She didn’t hold out much hope that her opponent would see that this was stupid.
Cami was a little surprised at the woman’s quick reaction. She hadn’t expected one comment to make her lose control, but was astounded that she didn’t feel more fear. Even though she’d known she was slowly recovering from the attack, she’d thought that a situation such as this might give her trouble. Maybe it was the fact that she was facing a woman. All she felt was determination and a slow, building anger over the woman’s initial attack. What did astound her was that men weren’t here already in response to the scream.
“What’s the matter? Can’t decide what to do now that your craven sneak attack failed?” Cami didn’t try to hold back the disdain in her voice or expression.
The woman swung her claws at Cami’s face. Cami jumped back from the swipe, but immediately glided forward and sliced a punch up toward the woman’s jaw. The blow glanced off the woman’s jaw as the black-haired woman instinctively flinched back. She saw a little surprise in the other female’s eyes.
“I’m not so easily intimidated.” Cami shook her head, but never took her eyes off the woman. She knew she couldn’t afford to let her guard down a moment.
“I’m going to make you afraid. I’ll hurt you and keep doing it until you leave this Thent. They’re mine,” the woman snarled.
“Yours?” Cami shook her head and bit off a laugh. “I doubt you were even under consideration. I dreamed of them with more than a few of the women in this Thent, some more than one time. I never saw you. I didn’t even know they touched you.”
“They want me now!” The woman rushed at Cami.
Cami twisted out of the way of the furious woman. She grabbed the petite woman’s shoulder and then slammed her head into the wall before she could spin around to come at her again. She was getting tired of dealing with Colm and Linc’s angry past lovers.
“More and more I begin to doubt their level of intelligence and taste when it comes to women.” She shook her head and then stripped off the woman’s belt to tie her hands. She didn’t know what she was going to do with the woman, but leaving the other female’s hands free for another attack seemed careless.
“I’ll take her,” a male voice announced.
Cami jumped. Where did he come from? He certainly hadn’t been there more than a moment or two.
“I just got past the women in the hall set to distract us.” He smiled and stepped forward when she backed away from the woman sprawled on the floor near the base of the stairs. “The Ardin will probably be inside shortly.”
The question must have been plain to see on her face, because she knew she hadn’t said that out loud. As for the Ardin, she was angry enough right now to try to disappear on them. However, if she did that, she wouldn’t get to yell at them. Right now she really wanted to yell at them.
“No questions about what happened?” She raised a brow. It didn’t seem right that he just walked into the middle of this and calmly took the other woman without hearing either side of the story.
“I heard enough even before getting past the other women to know she wanted to hurt you. The sound carries rather well along these hallways. On top of that, you couldn’t have gotten those women to run interference.” He nodded and hauled the woman to her feet.
“I’m going to my room. If they get here before I get back, that’s where I’ll be.” She started up the stairs. She was going to need a few minutes to calm down. Not only because of the power flowing through her, but because she didn’t want to lose control and go at those two men. She had to admit he was right about the other women. She hadn’t made many friends here yet. Most of the females here only tolerated her.
When she closed the door to her room behind her, she began pacing. Shivers raced over her body. Anger boiled through her. She whipped around and stalked back to the other end of the room. Colm and Linc were responsible for part of this and she heaped a lot of the blame their way, but she knew it