Laszlo by Abbott Tina.R

Author:Abbott, Tina.R.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RaspberryRipplePress UK
Published: 2023-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

17

Daisy

“Oh, come now, Daisy. Do you not have any words for me today?” he crooned, closing the chamber door behind us. “It has been five days and not a single sentence has left your lips. Have I upset you?”

Laszlo strode towards me, lips twitching with the grin that longed to swoop across his handsome face. If he was going to take my voice so cruelly, then I would not be so easily fooled into using it without making him work for it.

In truth, I was a little humiliated. The man had made me vulnerable. I couldn’t tell whether he was just toying with me, or whether he could feel something more between us the way I did. I closed my eyes, hiding the flames of annoyance, crackling on the embers of my desire for him.

“Oh, I believe I have.”

I opened my eyes. Laszlo’s face had paled slightly under his mop of silver hair.

“Of course you haven’t,” I lied. “What on earth do you think you could have possibly done to upset me, Mr Winter?”

He shrugged his shoulders, awkwardly trying to gather the words for his response. That was the first time I had seen him lost for words. His demeanour shrivelled behind the fading smile, teeth chewing at the inside of his cheek in avoidance of mentioning that day in the shop. To have admitted full knowledge of what he had done, how he had made me feel, was clearly something he was not willing to do. Finally, I had taken back some control over our relationship, and it felt glorious. The tension in my shoulders eased away in satisfaction.

Pieces of metal, cogs and springs splayed out across the thin sheet covering the bed. Laszlo did not jest when he told me I was to remain in my chambers. Silas had forbidden me to go anywhere unless Laszlo escorted me. Inadvertently, by remaining silent for five days, I had punished myself probably more than I had him. My stubborn streak had kept me locked in the confinement of my room because I wanted to prove a point.

My time wasn’t wasted. I made sure I was frugal with every second of it, creating a plan of how I was to apply the theory of the absconditum to the tremendously, and somewhat ridiculously, large door of Silas’s hidden room.

In the rushing tidal waves of my musings, another intrusive thought sailed upon them like a ship upon the ocean. It was too large to ignore, and my mind could not push it away. The distraction was relentless.

With no other choice, I yielded to it, allowing it to wander freely at the forefront of every decision, blocking out every mental diagram I had made. From it, I bore what I believed to be the key to obtaining access to the glass globe of silver mist without the king ever knowing.

“Do you have everything you need?” Laszlo asked, his eyes roving over the chaos on the bed. He moved briskly around me to the large sheet of parchment, covered in illegible writing and swift strokes of charcoal.

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