A Midnight Dance by Lila Dipasqua

Author:Lila Dipasqua [DiPasqua, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Lila DiPasqua
ISBN: 9780425241981
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

16

Sabine jerked the weeds out of the herb garden.

“Insufferable.” Yank. “Overbearing.” Yank, yank. “I curse the day I ever met him! Ever laid eyes on him!” She tossed the weeds toward the pile she’d made and jerked out more.

Agnes blinked as she watched Sabine, down on her knees, venting her fury on the vegetation.

“I don’t believe I’ve ever seen you this incensed,” Agnes remarked, holding a basket of carrots, radishes, and leeks.

Sabine shot to her feet. “I cannot believe our cursed luck! It’s bad enough that the silver is missing—and I’ve been racking my mind trying to figure out when it was stolen and who could have taken it—and now we must deal with him!” Agnes knew full well she was talking about Jules. “He holds us prisoner and then acts as though he’s our master, taking our eggs, cheese, all the best foods we have for himself! The very foods we use to sell for a few meager coins. What does he leave us? Some stale bread to dunk in soup made from that!” She pointed to Agnes’s basket. “It’s bad enough that Louise and her lazy daughters never do their share around here. Now we have His Majesty to contend with!” Sabine cleaned her hands on her apron with an angry swipe. “He even has Raymond pull furniture out of the house for his comfort outside. Awaiting the return of his silver, he sits on his throne. For two days he’s dictated to us while you, Olivier, and I kill ourselves trying to scrape together enough to eat and toil in the fields!” So scorching was her fury, she was amazed her eyebrows hadn’t been singed off.

Sabine curled her fingers into a fist. “I should march in there and break another of his ribs!”

“Sabine, he’s injured, we took his treasure, and he’s an Aristo by blood. You can hardly expect he’ll help us in the fields,” Agnes responded.

“His ignoble status makes him no more important in society than we are. I am sick and tired of this poverty. And his highhandedness. We’re going to get our hands on his silver. We’re going to climb out of this dark hole we have sunk into. I’m going to find my sister. And as for the mighty Jules de Moutier, he needs to be knocked off his perch. And I am just the woman to do it.” She stalked toward the house, stopping abruptly when Agnes called out her name.

She turned back around, itching to give Jules a piece of her mind. “What is it?”

Agnes was smiling. “I do like one thing about the Aristo.”

Sabine frowned. “What is that?”

“I like how he affects you. It’s been five years since I’ve seen any sort of fire or life in you.”

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