Rainbow Snippets: Preparing to die

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I’m sharing snippets from In Pain and Blood for a while. The prologue is part of the new additions and stars Tracker. The rewrite is a little light on the romance side and a touch darker in other parts.

This week’s snippet follows on from last week’s where Tracker revealed he knew exactly how people would interpret the scene.

Closer to the wagon, the bodies became less identifiable. He could speculate that the ones bearing swords were once guards, but the driver or the other passengers could’ve easily taken up arms against an attack. The only figure he could be certain of was the small frame of charred bones sitting in what remained of the wagon.
Her hand still clung to the throwing knife he had gifted her, the same one she had plucked from the air during his pursuit. In the scant few days they had travelled together, she begged him to teach her with him remaining unrelenting until the last.
Had she been preparing herself to fight? To die?

Tracker will be back next week with more from In Pain and Blood. In the meantime, check out these other snippets.