Into the Fire (Broken Gears Book 2) by Dana Fraedrich

Author:Dana Fraedrich [Fraedrich, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Goat Song Publishing
Published: 2017-09-04T23:00:00+00:00

16

~Grate Fight~

A

s high summer rolled in, Lenore was glad to get out of the house more often. Because weather in the midlands of Invarnis where Springhaven sat was mild, the air barely played around the edges of being too hot. It was rare for a day to be uncomfortably so, even in the dead middle of the season. Camilla seemed keen to get out as well, and the two would often go for walks around town either through the markets of the city center or the gardens. Lenore had learned of Camilla’s row with Falcon and couldn’t blame her housemate for her feelings. Of course, Ginger had broached the subject on more than one occasion when asking after Camilla’s well-being, and Lenore couldn’t bring herself to agree with Ginger’s point of view, despite how kind Falcon had always been to Camilla.

“I agree with Camilla. He needs to find a new line of work.”

“His grandfather will disinherit him if he does,” Ginger argued. “He’d have nothing. I know that must be difficult for you to imagine, but you’ve never had to scrap your way through life. For goodness’ sake, the Allens don’t even charge you rent.”

“Of course not,” Mint said. “She’s family.”

Lenore swallowed angry words. There was nothing she could say to that because her back story had been left intentionally bland, and living with the Allens was as good as royalty compared to where she’d come from.

Lenore barely saw Neal anymore. After he’d completed what Mina macabrely referred to as “the post-mortem process” for the expedition—taking inventory, salvaging the results of the trip and turning some aspects into promotional material for the museum, and worst of all meeting with the museum board members to give an accounting of what had gone wrong and how it could have been avoided—it was up to Neal to make most of this happen. He co-authored papers, communicated constantly with Baqer in Bone Port, worked with the Anthropology department on their study of the bodies, and many other tasks.

And he didn’t want Lenore’s help with any of it.

She’d persisted in offering assistance, but each time Neal had politely brushed her off. Was it possible he didn’t want her as his assistant anymore? Maybe he’d realized he didn’t need her. Thank the stars no one complained about her continuing the Subaquatic Sloop copy project in the Arc-Tech department, and Ezra was a better assistant than Rook by a million times. Working on that provided a small comfort to Lenore, like maybe she could still contribute even if Neal didn’t want her around. She didn’t feel right talking to Mina about it. That seemed somehow wrong, complaining to her about her husband, putting her in the middle. Nevermind that Lenore had done it with both her parents. This was somehow different. She had no such qualms about discussing it with Camilla, however. Camilla would likely go to Mina with the information, but Lenore didn’t feel nearly as guilty about that. She’d done her duty by telling Camilla about her misgivings in going to Mina.

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