Chapter 3: Did he just call me 'Kitten'?
Kat narrowed her eyes as the blue eyed man was lead to the noose and the prisoners in their jail cells cheered and hooted annoyingly. She stood to her sisters left while the Warden sat to her right.
"I have very bad feeling." She muttered to Evie. Her sister just nodded at her before turning to the warden.
"I will give you 100 pounds to save this man's life." She told the disgusting man.
"Oh, so we're auctioning his life." Kat nodded. "Swell."
"Madame, I would pay 100 pounds just to see him hang."
Kat sneered at the warden. "That's barbaric!"
The warden just grinned at the older women before turning to the man as the nose was tied around his neck.
"200 pounds!" Evie exclaimed.
"Proceed!" the warden said. The man who tying the noose tightened it, making the other one grunt.
"300 hundred pounds."
"Any last request, Pig?" the executioner asked
"Yeah. Loosen the knot and let me go. "She heard him choke out. She chuckled at the man as his eyes looked up at hers.
The idiot of the man looked up at the warden and spoke.
"Yahemar!" the warden yelled in disbelief. "Of course we don't let him go!"
"What. An. Idiot." Kat snorted.
"500 hundred pounds!" Evie desperately bargained. The warden shouted in Arabic.
He turned to Evie. "And what else? I'm a very lonely man."
"Bastard!"Kat snarled as he placed a hand on her little sister's thigh. Before she knew what she was doing her hand shot out and punched the warden right in the nose. The warden jerked back and clenched his bloody nose as the jail mates laughed at his pain.
"Yalla tlak!"
"No!" Evie shouted jumping up.
"Eve!" Kat whispered pulling the panicking women to her. "Take care of the warden I'll be back."
"Kat what are you going to do?" Evie yelled after her, but she was ignored as her sister ran out o the stands.
Kat ran down the stairs and jumped over the railing.
"Adonis." She whistled. The wolf's ears perked up and he trotted to his mistress.
"Listen very closely, boy." She said looking into his dark eyes.
Evie stared at the man in horror as he choked and gagged for air.
"Ha ha. His neck did not break." The warden cheered quite happily. The prisoners went wild. "Oh, I am so sorry. Now we must watch him strangle to death." The prisoners started cheering in Arabic, excited for what was going to happen
Evie felt a bile rise in her throat and thanked god the Kat wasn't here; she would have strangled him.
The man grunted as her struggled to breathe, and Evie did the only thing she could think of.
"He knows the location to Hamunaptra." She told the grinning Warden.
His head snapped to hers in shock.
"You lie." He sneered
"I would never!" she gasped deeply offended.
"Are you telling me this filthy, godless son of a pig knows the where to find the City of the Dead?"
"Yes." She told him.
"Truly?" he raised a finger.
"Yes! And if you cut him down, we will give you-"
A loud snarl echoed through the crowed as the prisoners parted to let the black wolf race threw. He ran up the plank swiftly and pounced on the executioner; his sharp canines ripping onto the soft flesh on his arm.
"What!" the warden exclaimed.
"Kat." Evie whispered as she saw her outlined figure in the crowd.
"We'll give you ten percent." She said hopping she'll stop this whole mess before blood spills.
"Fifty percent."
"Twenty."
"Forty." He fired back.
"Thirty." She snapped
"Twenty five!"
"Ah, deal." She grinned thanking the gods for the man's stupidity.
"Ahh. Cut him down!" he ordered. One man raised the axe, but before he could bring it down Kat's knife cut the rope easily. The man landed with a thud, groaning in pain.
"Hey." A voice called making him looked up to see those gorgeous hazel eyes. "You ok, pal?" she grinned before looking over to the snarling wolf as he stubbornly held on to the man's arm as other tried to pull him off. "Adonis. Enough." She said calmly and almost immediately he released his hold and galloped to her.
Kat and the man looked up at Evie as she looked smugly down at them.
"You never answered my question." Rick looked over at the women, Kat if he remembered correctly.
"And what was the question?" he smirked.
She rolled her eyes. "Are you ok?"
"Just peachy." He replied cheekily. She nodded.
"Good. Hate to have a handsome guy like you killed." She flirted.
He grinned as he shrugged.
"Kat!" She looked over her shoulder to see her brother and sister wave her over.
"Well, it was nice meeting you, blue eyes." She smirked jogging over to her siblings.
"You too." He whispered. .
*Time skip*
Kat bit into an apple as she and her siblings walked into the Giza port, their luggage behind them.
"Do you really think he's going to show up?"
"You have trust issues, sis." Kat told her taking another bite of the delicious fruit. "It's rather unattractive."
"Yes undoubtedly, knowing my lick." Jon said bitterly. "he may be a cowboy, but I know his kind. His word is his word."
Kat chewed thoughtful before swallowing . " And do tell how do you know his kind, Jon?"
"None of you business, little sister." He waved her off. She rolled her eyes, throwing the apple core into the water.
"Well, personally I think he's filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel. I don't like him one bit." She told them.
"How rude. I think he's quite handsome. Which is saying something with the way he looked." Kat mused.
"Anyone I know."
Kat turn around, her mouth open to greet the familiar voice. Jaw dropping she gapped at the handsome man in front of her. His hair was neatly cut and he was clean of dirt. He wore a tan jacket and trousers and he carried a brown traveling bag.
"Well, you cleanup nicely." She smiled at him. He smirked and looked to her brother when he playfully socked his shoulder.
"Smashing day for the start of an adventure, eh, O'Connell?" Jon chuckled nervously as he shook his hand.
"Yeah. Yeah, smashing." Rick said sarcastically as he checked his wallet.
"Oh, no, no, I'd never steal from a partner…partner."
"Bullshit!" Kat glowered. "You steal from me, millions of times! And I'm your sister!"
Rick chuckled as Kat chided her brother as if he was a little boy, and by the way he look down guiltily he looked like one too.
"That reminds me. No hard feelings about the-"he mocked a punch.
"Oh, no, no. Happens all the time." His eyes flickered to Kat and Rick had to hold back a laugh.
"O'Connell. I know I said this once. But if you're just pulling us along, I will kill you." Kat smiled sweetly.
"You'll kill me?" he repeated. "Kitten let me put it this way: My whole damn garrison believed in this so much that without orders, they marched halfway across Libya and into Egypt to find that city. And when we got there all we found was sand and blood." He stared into her eyes for a moment before looking away. "Let me get your bags."
He walked away leaving the Carnhan's staring after him in shock.
"Yes, yes you're right. Filthy rude, a complete scoundrel. Nothing to like there at all." Jon mocked Evie.
"Kitten?" Kat asked looking at her siblings. "Did he just call me 'Kitten'?"
Her brother and sister looked at each other and snickered as their sister stalked after Rick O'Connell.