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    Trained to Destroy
    Trained to Destroy
    Trained to Destroy
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    Trained to Destroy

    By Viola Grace

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    Hidden does his work in secret and silence. Searching for the deadly weapon known as the Destroyer of Ichadra, he insinuates himself into an archaeological team looking for the ancient power. The woman he finds is young, strong and can rip him apart at the molecular level with the wave of her hand.

    Rathi can remember over sixteen hundred years, but she has slept for the last thousand. The handsome male who wakes her entreats her to do what is right and that alone wins her agreement. When she sees that her world is dead, she must choose to align herself with a current power, and nothing will convince her like a kind word and an offer to help discover what happened to those who came before.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateApr 27, 2013
    ISBN9781771114943
    Trained to Destroy
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    Viola Grace

    Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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      Trained to Destroy - Viola Grace

      A Guardsman wakes a deadly weapon of mythic proportions, Rathi, and she must choose sides with only his earnest gaze to go on.

      Hidden does his work in secret and silence. Searching for the deadly weapon known as the Destroyer of Ichadra, he insinuates himself into an archaeological team looking for the ancient power. The woman he finds is young, strong and can rip him apart at the molecular level with the wave of her hand.

      Rathi can remember over sixteen hundred years, but she has slept for the last thousand. The handsome male who wakes her entreats her to do what is right and that alone wins her agreement. When she sees that her world is dead, she must choose to align herself with a current power, and nothing will convince her like a kind word and an offer to help discover what happened to those who came before.

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      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Trained to Destroy

      Copyright © 2013 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-77111-494-3

      Cover art by Martine Jardin

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Trained to Destroy

      Tales of the Citadel book 20

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      The assessment council of the Citadel gathered in conference with Relay of the Sector Guard.

      Arcalithic, Master of the Citadel Niffu, addressed the union. We have been notified that the Raiders have been digging on Ichadra.

      Relay asked, The same Ichadra known in myth and legend as home of the Destroyer?

      Arcalithic nodded. We have had several of our archivists looking into the weapon, and it seems that it has shared characteristics with Star Breaker.

      Relay asked, How so?

      They were both organic weapons brought out to perform one task alone. The last time the Destroyer was seen was nine hundred fifty-seven years ago.

      What happened?

      The Ichadra were wiped out by disease and the Destroyer faded into history. The Raiders have been sifting through history and locating living weapons. We really need to get the same sort of program enacted. We can’t let them get the upper hand.

      Relay smiled on the screen. That is what this meeting is for, ladies and gentlemen. We are looking for tidbits of information just like this.

      Arcalithic cocked his head. So, what is your plan?

      Relay smiled. The Sector Guard is on its way. They will assess the validity of the danger and put a plan into action to obtain the Destroyer, whatever it is.

      Make sure that they use due care.

      The coordinator of enhanced beings across three sectors smiled. We always do.

      * * * *

      Jarrod dug with the others, seeking the Destroyer of Ichadra. They had only the most vague of location descriptions, but they did seem to be in the correct area.

      Jarrod had been a student of the Citadel for years before joining the Sector Guard. As Hidden, he was not on any public rosters, he went in undercover and got the job done.

      A cry rang out from the far end of the site, and the diggers all moved to excavate the find. Jarrod kept his mind on his task and his hands busy until the silvery metal and onyx stone was exposed to all of them. The Seeker, running the dig, moved them all back as he tried to read the code to the lock.

      Jarrod watched with the others as the Seeker entered code after code, moving his fingers over the glyphs around the opening.

      Jarrod and the others sat around, watching as the Seeker worked into the night. For Jarrod, the means of entry was simple, and yet, he could not move. Not yet.

      It was near dawn when the Seeker keeled over and had to be taken to his tent to rest. Only two men remained near the doorway, and they were both listing over with fatigue. It was time to see if he could take possession of the Destroyer before the Raiders captured one of the greatest weapons in history.

      He hid himself and walked to the door in the ground, standing centrally. He knocked with his heel and the door disappeared beneath him.

      Jarrod dropped fifteen feet before sliding to a halt. He looked up and the door solidified once again. If they could wake the Seeker, they would figure it out in a few moments, but with the drug he had slipped into the Seeker’s meal, he should have a

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