Hidden Fire (The FIRE series Book 1) by Rosemarie Cawkwell

Author:Rosemarie Cawkwell [Cawkwell, Rosemarie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-17T05:00:00+00:00

Back at her desk and running through final arrangements for the trip to Belenos, Lizzy barely looked up when she heard her study door open and close.

“Sarah, get me a glass of wine would you, I need it after dealing with those bigots.”

A loud click disturbed the flow of her writing. Lizzy looked up, and quickly rolled off the chair and under her desk as the wine bottle flew. The angry matron, Mistress Launston, red faced and breathing hard, screamed incoherent slurs. Outside, Sarah wrestled with the door, which Launston had locked quietly as she entered the room.

Lizzy assessed her situation. She could probably stay under her desk for a minute or two while the older woman found other things to hurl, and Sarah was outside. She'd be in in no time. But on the other hand, the woman was clearly unbalanced and would probably try to get at Lizzy under the desk. She would have to move, do something. More glass smashed above her head, and wine dribbled down the legs to the floor. The woman was getting more accurate.

Rolling out from under her desk, Lizzy sheepishly raised her head above her temporary parapet to survey the scene. Mistress Launston was closer, riffling through the books on her shelves, pulling them off and discarding some but keeping others. Lizzy slid the draw open, silently thanking her conscientious servants for their attention to minor details. She kept a letter knife in the draw that looked more dangerous than it was. Lizzy looked again, the woman's arms were burdened with books now.

Thus armed, the Princess rose to her feet and spoke, knife behind her back,

“Mistress, if you wanted to borrow a book, you should have asked first. Please tidy up the mess before you leave.”

“Bitch. Whore. The Queen should have made certain you were dead. You're spreading filth and corruption all through the kingdom. This is why the One has cursed us with a surfeit of enemies. He demands your blood.”

Lizzy yawned; the Queen's pet Curates used to say something similar, but blamed it on her accepted and acknowledged bastardy.

“Oh dear, you're one of those sorts of religious, are you? How unfortunate. I was going to try reasoning with you, if only for the sake of my books. Do put them down, you ridiculous creature. But now I shan't bother.”

There was a clink from the door as Sarah finally succeeded in pushing the key out from her side of the door and inserted her own key. Sarah stepped into the room moments later, an armed guard waiting behind her.

“Bitch! Do you fuck your maid as well? Corrupter of youth! These filthy books should be burnt!”

“No, no, they really should not. Sarah, be so kind as to remove this woman, to the Hospital would be most appropriate I think. She's clearly suffering some sort of religious mania.”

Sarah smiled and advanced on Mistress Launston, who smirked, her arms still clutching the stack of books.

“You trifling whore, let me by.” She barged into Sarah,

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