Past Crimes: A Compendium of Historical Mysteries by Ashley Gardner & Jennifer Ashley

Author:Ashley Gardner & Jennifer Ashley [Gardner, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946455031
Publisher: JA / AG Publishing
Published: 2017-07-15T22:00:00+00:00

The dreams left me alone until dawn, and then they came swooping.

In them, I saw Selenius, standing upright and regarding me calmly while blood flooded from his sliced throat. He didn’t seem to be aware that he was already dead—he only held out a slip of paper, demanding a huge amount of money for it. I couldn’t pay, but he offered to take the boy Sergius in lieu.

I shouted at Sergius to run, but the lad was frozen in place, staring at me in terror across the blood-drenched floor.

It’s all right, Marcella whispered from far away. Sergius is safe. You took him to the farm, remember?

The voice changed from Marcella’s to Cassia’s, but my worry only rose. Cassia should not be here. Selenius’s smile when he saw her exactly matched the shape of the cut in his neck.

I’ll take Cassia instead, Selenius seemed to say. Beautiful morsel. Proud bitch. Better on her hands and knees, I think.

Another man had said those very words to me at one time. I’d nearly killed him. I lunged at Selenius, and his blood showered me as he fell, warm and stinking.

“Leonidas!” A blow fell on my stomach, a strangely light one.

The thump didn’t fit with my dream, and I swam toward light, blinking open my eyes to see Cassia standing at arm’s length, her stick tapping me just above my navel. The blanket was around my hips, tangling my legs.

“Leonidas,” Cassia repeated, sounding relieved. “Marcianus is here.”

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