Ghosts in the Blood (In the Absence of Light Book 3) by Andy Monk

Author:Andy Monk [Monk, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-09-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Marietta-Anna

Lazziard Manor, Dorsetshire – 1708

Caleb shrugged off the grip and turned around wildly, sword raised to strike; his rage evaporating to fear. He lashed out clumsily with the blade, but his wrist was caught in a strong, unforgiving grip before it could connect with the tall, dark figure that loomed over him.

Elijah held his wrist and shook his head, before he released Caleb and stepped back further into the study were the candle light was stronger.

Swallowing his surprise and fear, Caleb glanced uncertainly back at the door and the muffled screams coming from the bedroom.

“He would kill you,” the slave hissed, “and Miss Elsabeth too.”

Caleb lowered the sword, of course, Elijah was right, he barely knew which end of the weapon to hold and he really would have to have killed the man the moment he stormed through the door; otherwise Lazziard would just tear him to pieces.

“I can’t just leave her in there.”

“He will not hurt her too much,” Elijah insisted, walking across the room and beckoning Caleb to follow him.

“Not hurt her? He’s killing her!”

“No, he enjoys the hurting too much for that,” Elijah beckoned him more urgently as he opened the door, “but he kill you real easy.”

Caleb slid his sword back into its sheath and followed Elijah out of the room; not for the first time in his life cursing his cowardice. The slave ushered him along the corridor and down the back stairs. On the landing of the floor below, he turned to face Caleb.

“The Cap’n is a bad man, very bad man Sir. Miss Elsabeth is very kind to me, it break my heart to hear her scream, to know what he do to her; but that man is a demon Sir. He is far worse than that girl you got in the cellar,” Elijah adjusted his frock coat and sighed deeply, “you go along now Sir, you just making things worse for the lady.”

“You’re not going to ask what I was doing there?”

“I knows well enough... Miss Elsabeth, she is a pretty lady, she deserve some kindness that lady does, but unless you going to take her away from this, you best leave her alone. It will only make her sadness worser, an she got all the sadness she needs as it is. An if you are a planning on taking her, you better be planning to take her a long longs way from the Cap’n,” Elijah gave him a lopsided smile, “but I don’t reckons you that kinda man...”

“You’re pretty opinionated for a slave?”

“After you live with the Cap’n, you find you ain’t scared of much else; there’s only so much room in your soul for scared-ness,” Elijah flicked some dust from his sleeve and turned to go.

“What if I were to take her?” Caleb said suddenly, “would you help me?”

Elijah looked at him boldly; insolently Caleb might have said under other circumstances, “You’re not man enough for it.”

Caleb blinked at the slave’s words, then smiled, “But if I were man enough?”

Elijah shrugged, “Miss Elsabeth deserve better than that devil.

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