Perilous Partnership by Ariel Tachna

Author:Ariel Tachna [Tachna, Ariel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781615816330
Google: Fs-xcQAACAAJ
Amazon: B0046H9Z5O
Goodreads: 9377163
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2010-10-07T23:00:00+00:00

Perilous Partnership

135

“Jean came by a few minutes ago and said he‟d meet you there,” Fabienne replied. “He said something about needing to meet with Orlando first.”

“Thank you,” Raymond said. “I‟ll let you know when I‟m back.”

A quick displacement spell sent him to Dommartin. Despite the cold, he took a moment to savor the brisk breeze. He loved Paris, had lived there since he was a teenager, but there was something to be said for the purity of country air. If he walked down to the lake and dipped his fingers in, he was sure he would find the same purity. He had other things to take care of first, though.

“Thierry? Sebastien?”

“In here,” Thierry replied, sticking his head out of one of the windows on the upper floor of the abbot‟s house. “It‟s safe to come upstairs.”

Raymond chuckled to himself as he wondered whether he needed to be more worried about the state of the building or walking in on Sebastien and Thierry in a compromising position. It had not happened recently, but more than once during the war, he had approached their office only to change his mind at the last minute because of the sounds he heard coming through the door. “What‟s going on?” he asked when he made it inside and up to the room where the two men waited for him.

“We‟ve been working on getting the abbot‟s house ready for inhabitants,”

Thierry said. “You mentioned needing two rooms for Luc and Magali, so we focused on this area. It will be more comfortable for pairs coming to help run the seminars as well because the rooms are more spacious on the whole. Once we know the main building is stable, we can look at some of the interior walls and possibly combine some of the monks‟ cells to make double rooms, but for now, this is a better bet.”

Raymond looked around the empty room. “So where are we in the process?”

“With Vincent‟s and Marcel‟s help, we‟ve made this building sound,”

Thierry reported, “and the workmen have made sure there is heat and electricity in all the rooms and running water in the appropriate places, so all we need is furniture, and people can start moving in. It will be shared restrooms and showers, unless you want to change the order of work that needs to be done to renovate the rooms in here.”

“I think if we‟re upfront about the arrangements, most people won‟t have a problem with that,” Raymond replied, “particularly while it‟s just Magali and Luc.”

“Actually,” Sebastien interrupted, “Thierry and I were thinking we might stay until the repairs are done as well. It‟s tiring to travel back and forth each day. If you‟re already arranging for food for Magali, you could easily arrange for food for two.”

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