Jake's Break - Book Six of Wizards by John Booth

Author:John Booth [Booth, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

27. Supper

The coach came to a halt in front of a modest entrance. No sooner had we got out than the doors closed and it took off again. The absence of sound was almost as disconcerting as the lack of wind. It just departed like a spectral arrow.

“This is the family entrance,” Lana explained. “There are much grander ones for when my father is receiving other Lords.”

“How do you become a Lord?” Esta asked.

“You inherit it. But that is not as simple as it sounds.”

“How did sister and brother come to own this planet?” I asked. It had been bothering me since Alan had addressed Fandra as sister.

“Fandra is the sister of my mother, who was my father’s designated wife. She inherited the d’Cosard estates.”

“Will we meet your mother?” Esta asked.

That gave me pause. I have always found it more difficult to meet the mothers of the women I have been intimate with than their fathers.

“My mother is dead,” Lana said without emotion.

The door opened and a young woman confronted us. She was wearing nothing but a skirt that might have served better as a handkerchief. She bowed to Lana.

“Your father is expecting you. Please follow me.”

I got closer to Lana. “Your father’s choice of servant is illuminating,” I said in English.

“It is not what you think. Young women are sent here by powerful families in the hope that he might father a child with them. And they spy on him. It is a way to gain influence and my father cannot refuse them without insulting their families. These girls take their role very seriously.”

I nodded. “I think they used to do the same in England. That’s how most of our nobility got started, by-blows of the King.”

“Then you understand,” Lana said quietly.

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