Midnight Capers by Rebecca King

Author:Rebecca King [King, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

“She doesn’t trust you,” Joshua warned when Dean sat slumped at the kitchen table a few minutes later.

Having taken a few moments to change his clothing Dean had tried to find answers, to try to remember as much about her mannerisms and their conversation and what they had shared last night. Anything might be significant. But nothing came to mind. Consequently, he couldn’t think of a way of getting her to trust him. It seemed mean to return her to the woman she was so desperate to leave but if there really was nothing else driving her actions than a need for freedom, Pheony had to go back.

“She has to be returned to her guardian,” Peregrine hissed. “She cannot stay here. We have Morton to find and can’t get involved in a young woman’s personal issues. I will grant you that three and twenty seems a little old to need a guardian, but if that is what her father wanted for her, and if she isn’t married, there is nothing we can do.”

Dean hadn’t quite closed the bed chamber door when he had left. Pheony could hear every word the men were saying seeing as the kitchen was directly beneath the bed chamber, and the house was quiet. A few words were mumbled, so she crept closer to the door. She heard something about them sending her back and felt sick at the thought that all her trouble had been for nothing. She tried not to sniff miserably because if she could hear the men downstairs then they would be able to hear her, and she didn’t want them to know that she was listening and feeling more betrayed than ever.

“I have to leave,” she breathed. But now, she was in an even worse situation than she had been in when she had left the tavern because she had no clothing except for the soaking wet dress she was in. “I have money. If I stay away from rivers, I should be all right.”

But as she thought that the window behind her suddenly shattered as did the door beside her face. Pheony screamed and whirled around so quickly that she forgot about her knee again and stumbled against the dresser when pain lanced up her thigh. It was that stumble that saved her life because she was lying slumped against the dresser when the second bullet lodged in the door jamb inches above her head.

“Dean!” she screamed.

The sound of running footsteps thundered through the house. Within seconds, Dean slammed into the room. “Get down!” he bellowed when another bullet whizzed past his ear and lodged itself into the wall of the hallway behind him.

Peregrine leaned backwards as he stared at the hole. “A gunman,” he snarled to Hamish, who was halfway up the stairs. “Go! Go!”

Pheony threw herself boldly at Dean the second he appeared in the doorway and another bullet blasted through the window, showering them both in glass. She landed against him so heavily that her body weight propelled Dean out into the hallway.

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