Follow My Lead by Noble Kate

Author:Noble, Kate [Noble, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2011-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Of course, it was not two hours later that they were uncomfortably kicked off board.

It couldn’t have lasted, in any case. They would have never made it all the way to Vienna. There would be stops to change horses, feed the passengers . . . and an overnight stop wherein they would be discovered as not paying and not able to afford the rooms they were made to take. But still, Jason had hoped to make it farther than they did.

It did not assist that he still had no idea why they were going to Vienna. Winn was unable to give her explanation in the carriage, as two of the other passengers, ladies, began a conversation that did not stop, except for every time Jason or Winn tried to open their mouths to say something. Then it got so quiet Jason could swear that he could hear the ladies listening.

So Winn and Jason had to ignore each other, until finally the ladies settled down into snoozing. Which turned out to be Winn and Jason’s undoing.

Really, they would have been better off just keeping quiet the entire time.

“Now, do you mind telling me why we had to escape Nuremberg so quickly that we had to leave all our money behind?”

And that was it. That was the one sentence that had to be said that shouldn’t have been said. Because, as Jason should have learned by now, snoozing, carriage-bound Germans have the suspicious ability to hear (and understand) English extremely well.

“Driver!” one of the ladies cried, sitting bolt upright and banging on the roof of the carriage. The carriage lurched to an immediate stop, and the driver climbed down, followed by the light footsteps of Hans, the boy Jason had to bamboozle.

While the boisterous and, now that Jason thought about it, ugly and warted woman divulged—in rapid German, of course—through the window of the carriage everything she had just heard Jason say, he watched as the young boy’s eyes grew wide, and then as his face paled when the driver turned to him, his hand raised in a fist.

“No!” Jason bellowed as he leapt from the carriage, ran around to the other side, and came in between the driver and the boy. “He did nothing to earn a beating,” Jason growled, catching the driver’s arm.

“He cost me money!” the driver sneered. “He needs to learn a lesson. Or do you want to learn it for him?”

Jason breathed in the fumes of the beer on the driver’s breath and eminently regretted his decision to put his nose in the man’s face.

Now, Jason had only ever been in a single fight in his life, and it had been decidedly one-sided. And that side was his, facedown in the mud outside of a pub called the Oddsfellow Arms near his sister’s home. But he liked to think he could hold his own in one-on-one combat.

He was wrong.

Even a lifetime of beer drinking could not allay the sheer strength the driver had earned from controlling a team of horses all day, every day.

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