Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen

Author:Shana Galen
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: SourceBooks, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

“Bloody hell.” Adrian stared at the dead man. He hadn’t meant to kill him. The man would have been far more useful to them alive.

Sophia huffed out a sigh. “Well, that’s unfortunate. I would have liked to question him, find out who he was and why he wants us dead.”

“It must have something to do with the Jenkinson case.”

“Probably, but we can’t assume that. We both have enemies.”

Adrian knelt down and checked the man’s pulse, just to be certain. Nothing. He began going through the man’s pockets, hoping to find a clue as to his identity. “Agent Wolf has enemies, but they don’t know where to find me. Rarely have I been assaulted on English soil.”

“Anything?” Sophia asked. He handed her the man’s cheap pocket watch and a pound note found in the man’s pockets.

“That’s all.”

“Not very enlightening.” She sighed. “If only you hadn’t killed him.”

Adrian rose. “I was trying to save you, madam.”

It was the wrong thing to say, and he knew it immediately, even before she put her hands on her hips and glared at him. “I don’t need to be saved.”

He didn’t want to argue with her, but he couldn’t allow this to pass. “Your shot was wild. You weren’t even close to hitting him. He would have fired on you next.”

“It would have taken him a moment to load another ball and gunpowder. I had my dagger. And I was trying to save you. He almost hit you.”

“The point is,” Adrian said, starting for the mouth of the side street and not really caring if she followed or not, “if you had wounded him, I wouldn’t have needed to shoot to kill.” He said the last over his shoulder and heard her stomping after him.

“Oh, I see. You had to kill him because I’m a poor shot.”

Adrian kept walking. “I didn’t mean to kill him. I was going to wound him.” But instinct had taken over. For a second, he had feared for Sophia’s safety, her life. In that moment, he hadn’t cared about who the assailant was or what information he might hold. Adrian just wanted Sophia safe.

“So you’re such a good marksman, you killed him accidentally.”

He scowled and rounded on her. “Sophia—”

A dagger flew past his head and landed in the wall behind him. Too late, Adrian blinked, but he was able to control the instinctual flinch.

Sophia stood staring at him, her arm outthrust. “I’m not so bad with a dagger, am I, my lord?”

Adrian took a deep breath, turned to study the dagger protruding from the wooden wall behind him. If he backed up, he had no doubt the dagger would be a hair from his face. “Perhaps in the future you should avoid pistols.”

“Perhaps I will.” She retrieved the dagger and tucked it in her boot.

He offered his arm, and with a small smile, she took it. “What should we do with him?” She gestured to the dead man.

“I’ll send a note to Melbourne, have one of the agents pick him up. Perhaps someone knows who he is—was.

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