My Lady Rogue by Katherine Bone

Author:Katherine Bone [Bone, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-17T05:00:00+00:00

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LIFE DRAINED OUT of Simon as he held Gillian’s unconscious body close. In abject despair, he knelt to the ground, taking her with him. No matter what he’d done in his life, his talents had failed him. He hadn’t been able to protect Gillian when she’d needed it most. He stroked her hair, whispering her name over and over again, kissing her tear-stained face.

“Don’t die. Don’t die, my love.”

She didn’t respond. Blood oozed onto his hands where she’d been shot just below the waist. He slapped her cheek then grasped her wrist and checked for her pulse. Had he lost her forever? No! She was alive!

Russell bolted forward, dropping to a knee beside him. “Is she?”

“No,” he said, refusing to accept anything more. He inched Gillian’s arm free from his chest and laid her down on the carpet. “Here,” he said, entrusting Russell with her life, “do what you can. Don’t let her die.”

Russell nodded, understanding his turmoil. “She’s in good hands, my lord.”

“Don’t disappoint me,” he threatened, before turning his attention to the melee exploding in the room. Something had to be done to ensure Holt couldn’t harm any of them again. And he was ready for a fight.

“Go,” Russell prodded him when he hesitated to leave her side. “I need room to examine her wound.”

Simon rose, slowly scrutinizing the way Russell dipped his fingers into Gillian’s lifeblood. His hands fisted at his sides. Holt would pay for what he’d done — ushering in deceit and betrayal to the only safe haven they’d ever known. But not until he found out who pulled the vicar’s marionette strings.

He stepped back and turned, approaching the encircling men who watched Garrick punish Holt with his meaty fists. Holt staggered then spit out blood right before he fell to the floor. Pinned beneath the hulking pirate, he received more pummeling blows to his swelling face.

Garrick raised his bloody fists and roared, “You sniveling bastard!”

Garrick was the real problem now.

Simon needed Holt alive. The vicar was no use to them dead. He ground his teeth together. Lucifer take it, he wanted to kill Holt himself, not watch Garrick do it. But corpses were incapable of divulging secrets.

He motioned to Henry, the only one capable of talking Garrick out of one of his fits. “Control him!”

Henry nodded and moved in behind Garrick, catching his fist mid-air. “Let him go, Garrick. Holt cannot harm anyone now.”

“Devil damn me, he can and he will,” Garrick raged. He wrenched his hand, trying to free it from Henry’s grasp, but the captain held fast. “He’s going to kill us! Don’t you understand?”

Simon ran his hands through his hair. “Keep him alive,” he shouted to Percy. “Employ every method you know to ensure he stays that way.”

The mad as a buck faces of his men belied their easy acceptance of his order. They wanted to kill their betrayer just as much as he did. But some things far outweighed immediate satisfaction.

Percy’s eyes turned lethal as he strode toward Garrick. “Let him go, Captain.

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