Honor's Revenge by Mari Carr & Lila Dubois

Author:Mari Carr & Lila Dubois
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farm Boy Press

Chapter Sixteen

Sylvia fought to hold her eyes open. Everything kept happening in tiny, disconnected scenes. Pain. Cold. Water. Darkness. The sensation of drowning. One time she looked up to see her brother carrying her. The next time, she woke to find herself in a bed in a room she’d never seen before. She heard several men speaking in murmured voices, but she couldn’t see them. As her eyes drifted shut, a door opened and closed.

When Sylvia was finally able to pull herself out of the haze that had kept her in a pleasant fog, she did so with a jerk as everything that had happened with Alicia crashed in on her at once.

“Ah!”

“Shh.” A firm hand on her shoulder pressed her back to the bed. “You’re okay, Sylvie.”

She fought to focus her gaze, though the mere sound of Lancelot’s voice calmed her. She was vaguely aware of a throbbing pain in her hand and she recalled the car door slamming on it.

She tried to lift it, but Hugo’s hand was resting on her wrist. When he felt her try to move, his grip tightened.

“Try not to move your hand too much, ma cherie.”

“My hand,” she said, her voice weak, more whisper than sound.

“You’ve broken several bones that need to be set. Right now, it’s just wrapped up temporarily. Your brother has gone out to pick up someone he said could do that. He also promised to bring back food,” Hugo explained.

Sylvia nodded, trying not to think about how bad the damage might be. She wrote with that hand, drew. She closed her eyes, struggling to fight back the fear, the panic still clawing at her chest.

Though the practical part of her brain knew she was safe, she was having a hard time beating back the terror she’d felt in that car with Alicia.

“Alicia,” she whispered, still trying to believe that her beloved teacher, her mentor, had tried to kidnap her, had drugged her. Had lost her ever-lovin’ mind.

“She got away,” Lancelot said, his tone telling her how much that fact enraged him.

“Good,” Sylvia said. “I never want to see her again. I can’t…”

“Can’t what?” Lancelot prodded.

“Can’t believe how crazy she was. You should have heard the things she was saying…about the world. About Europe. About…” she paused again, recalling all that Alicia had told her about the Masters’ Admiralty. About Hugo and Lancelot being members.

The same feeling of unease she’d felt at the resort when Alicia pointed out the holes in Hugo and Lancelot’s reason for being together in Charleston came back to her.

The two men shared a pointed look.

That look told her there was something they weren’t saying.

That look told her perhaps her mentor wasn’t as crazy as she’d seemed.

Her body hurt and her head was fuzzy. She had that slightly disconnected feeling she was fairly sure was due to prescription painkillers, not whatever Alicia had pumped into her.

Even with that, she wasn’t sure she could handle anything more. She could close her eyes, pretend she hadn’t seen the way they looked at each other.

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