Sebastian's Lady Spy by Sharon Cullen

Author:Sharon Cullen
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Sebastian sat in a chair by the window in Gabrielle’s bedchamber. As he watched her sleep, he rubbed his finger along his upper lip and contemplated the evening’s revelations.

It had been quite an eventful evening. Gabrielle had been attacked, they’d made love, and she’d turned everything he believed upside down. His mind was reeling but his thoughts were very clear.

Before she’d drifted back to sleep, her eyes had been shadowed with stories she wouldn’t tell, memories she wouldn’t share.

He did what he always did in difficult situations. He prioritized. Right now he had to stop thinking about Gabrielle’s past and remember that someone out there wanted to hurt her.

Gabrielle had been too long without someone to protect her, and damn, but he was feeling very protective of her at the moment. She would hate that, of course, and truth be told, he wasn’t pleased about it, either. Gabrielle was a drug he didn’t need in his system, and yet he was helpless against her.

He dressed quietly, searching for his clothes in the near dark, and soundlessly slipped out of her room.

He ran into Riggs on the staircase and motioned for him to follow him into the drawing room. “Gabrielle is still sleeping.”

Riggs nodded, expressionless. Sebastian wondered at Riggs’s past but didn’t have time to ask. Obviously the man was committed to Gabrielle, and he didn’t look at all surprised to see Sebastian emerging from her bedchamber.

“I don’t know why she was attacked last night, but I intend to find out. In the meantime, whoever wants her is still out there. I need you to be extra vigilant.”

Riggs nodded again. He seemed to be a man of few words unless he was ordering Sebastian about.

“I’m leaving to confront the man who attacked her last night.”

Ah, finally a reaction. Riggs shifted, his stance widening, his fingers flexing as if he wanted to get his hands on Wilcott as well.

“Please try to keep her inside until I return. Together we should be able to protect her.”

“Very well, sir. Will there be anything else?”

“I don’t think so.”

“Would you like me to accompany you?”

Sebastian smiled. “As much as I would love to have you watch my back, I feel you’re needed here to keep an eye on Gabrielle.”

—

Sebastian stood in the shadows and pushed his anger to a place deep inside where emotion wouldn’t rule. He practiced patience before entering the house, watching, listening. No servants were up and about, but the sun would rise soon and with it the household. He wanted to be gone by then.

It hadn’t been hard to enter Wilcott’s home. The ineffectual locks had been easy to pick, and he’d walked right in.

Wilcott stirred and groaned. Apparently Gabrielle’s knife wound had not been life-threatening. Pity, that. But it was also a good thing, because Sebastian could interrogate him.

Sebastian slid out of the shadows. The bed dipped beneath him as he sat on the edge of it. Wilcott came awake with a jerk and another moan, his gaze flitting about the room until it landed on Sebastian.

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