Lane Robins - Maledicte 01 by Maledicte

Author:Maledicte
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-06-03T18:49:14+00:00

MICHELIXION, EARL OFLAST,lay in wait. He had arrived at Lastrest to find that Janus and Lady Amarantha were riding the grounds, but his temper demanded instant expression. So instead of busying himself with his correspondence, his bills, his petitioners, he sat in his reading room, the double doors wide to the hall and the front door, the leaded windows opened over rosebushes and the smoothly clipped lawn, waiting for the first sound of their return.

A day and a half ’s hard travel and distance from Maledicte’s insolent mouth had not eased his temper; firecracker spurts of rage still flared beneath his outward composure.

He heard the hoofbeats first, drumming toward the stable, hooves spattering the fine gravel of the drive, and he frowned. They should have more care for the tender hooves of his livestock. Even as he thought that, he heard a woman’s voice raised and the horses slowed.

Some minutes later, the front doors opened and two sets of footsteps rang against the marble floor of the foyer. He rose and went into the hall. Janus and Amarantha dallied there, shedding gloves. Amarantha’s cheeks were flushed, and Last thought the heat under her skin due to temper and not exertion, judging so from the rigidity of Janus’s smiling countenance, from the slap of her leather gloves striking the hall table.

“Janus, I must speak with you at once,” he said, in lieu of greeting.

“If you must,” Janus said.

“At once,” Last repeated, irritated anew at Janus’s laconic acknowledgment.

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