Cold Comfort (A New Adventure Begins - Star Elite Book 5) by Rebecca King

Author:Rebecca King [King, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

“What happens now?” Emmeline asked quietly. She studied the huge kitchen Oliver escorted her into but didn’t move away from the door. For a moment, she watched the rather domesticated scene of everyday life as the men removed cloaks and boots and poked the fire back into life before they set about putting various foodstuffs onto the table.

“Come and sit down and have something to eat. I don’t know about you, but I am starving,” Oliver grinned.

Emmeline stared at him in dismay. “You have just dropped two thugs off in gaol.”

“Yes.” Oliver was too busy slicing off large chunks of bread of a loaf in the middle of the table to pay much attention.

“Aren’t you worried that these Smidgley men might go looking for them?”

Oliver began to slather butter onto the bread and barely looked up. “I don’t doubt they will, but they won’t find them.”

“They have no idea where they have gone. Or the carriage for that matter,” Harry added.

Emmeline shook her head. “What do you plan to do with them? I mean, you cannot just swipe them off the street and lock them up for, well, whatever.”

“We aren’t. We are locking them up for a reason. They tried to abduct you. It is perfectly reasonable for them to be arrested for it, and sit behind bars while they await trial, especially seeing as they pose a danger to young women’s lives like yours,” Oliver replied with a nonchalant shrug. “We have committed no crimes. We have just blocked either of them from being able to try to snatch you again or warn Smidgley of where they are.”

“I hope the Smidgley brothers do panic and go out to look for them. Those thugs, while stupid, are treasure troves of information and will tell us what we need to know about who is helping the Smidgleys,” Rhys grinned. “They just don’t know it yet.”

Oliver shoved a chair out for her and motioned to it. “Now get something to eat. We can talk about what we are going to do next while everyone is here. That way, we are unlikely to be confused about what is supposed to happen. Sir Hugo, our boss, is in London right now, so it falls upon me to lead this investigation.”

“You are the second in command?” Emmeline asked.

Jasper choked on his drink and coughed loudly around his laughter.

Oliver threw him a dirty look. “Sort of, although nobody replaces Sir Hugo.”

Not seeing the joke, Emmeline’s gaze slid over each of the men seated around the table but none of them explained what they found so funny.

“We all work together,” Oliver said eventually. “It is just down to one of us to make most of the decisions about who goes where and does what when our boss, Sir Hugo, isn’t around.”

Emmeline began to pick nervously at the piece of bread Oliver put onto a plate and then slid across the table toward her.

“What is it you do, exactly?”

“We work for the War Office,” Oliver replied a little cautiously.

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