His Lady Spy by Rebecca King

Author:Rebecca King
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Rebecca King
Published: 2015-01-06T22:00:00+00:00

The following morning, Portia rolled over in bed trying to remember the last time she had slept so soundly. The meal she had shared with Cecily and Archie last night had been plentiful, with delightfully relaxing conversation.

Although Archie had revealed nothing about himself per se, he had shared amusing anecdotes of his exploits as a young boy with a penchant for climbing trees. It dawned on Portia as she sat listening to him, watching his chiselled features in the flickering candlelight, that he must have been watching her from the tree. He reluctantly admitted it had been the tree she had been standing under, and that caused her amusement and alarm in equal measure.

It was slightly unnerving to realise that she had been so close to a watchful stranger and not known of his presence. Although she understood the usefulness of such a tactic, she knew then what risks he had taken in breaking his cover, and chasing after her in an attempt to prevent her from becoming the Frenchmen’s next victim.

Although she was grateful she had a saviour, she was aware that they were soon to part company. The pang of loss she felt at the thought of not seeing him again felt a little like grief. It was so strong that she wanted to cry out aloud in protest before common sense replaced her instinctive gesture, and rendered her silent once more.

She wondered briefly what her father was doing right now. His rage would have driven him to scour the village for his wayward daughters. Portia wondered if he had called their prospective husbands; his cronies; to help with the search, and closed the thought off with a shudder of revulsion. Whatever happened, she had no intention of ever returning to Tissington.

The loud rumbling of her stomach urged her out of bed and, within minutes, she had seen to her ablutions before drawing back the shutters. She paused for a moment to study the hustle and bustle on the market street below. Although there weren’t as many stall holders, traders still hawked their goods with dextrous ease as people milled about randomly. Strangely, the market town didn’t seem that large. Portia wondered where everyone came from as they all seemed intent upon their purpose in life, each one of them striding this way and that.

She was about to turn away, when she caught sight of a brief flurry of movement in the alleyway opposite. Instinctively shying away from the window, she peered through a crack in the shutters and kept her eye trained on the dark shadows between the butchery and the undertakers opposite. She didn’t have to wait long before a man walked out of the alleyway. At first glance, he appeared to be no different to anyone else, but there was something about the furtive way he kept looking around him, and especially at the inn where she was standing, that raised alarm bells. She wondered if he was one of the Guards who had followed them this far.

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