Sedition by Cameron Alicia

Author:Cameron, Alicia [Cameron, Alicia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781622342426
Published: 2015-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Belonging

By the time I go to check on Sascha he’s fast asleep, curled up in my blankets like he hasn’t slept in weeks. I watch him for a moment. I’m glad he’s back for purely selfish reasons. I missed him, and I want him back in my house, in my life. It was just the other day that I was glad he was gone, but that was when I thought he was safer with his brother than with me. I’m not entirely sure what happened while he was gone, but he hasn’t looked so terrified in months. I fight the urge to check him for injuries. That can wait. He can sleep now.

I spend the morning investigating Abriel and his wife. They are boring, mediocre, just like everyone else in their tiny town. They shouldn’t be a problem for anyone, but just in case, I see what I can find. Unpaid bills, illegal information downloads. I find out what I can, and I store it away in my head for later.

I’m not surprised when my doorbell rings in the middle of the day. I’m harboring a runaway slave, but it’s not police. I have systems in place that would alert me if this address was reported to anyone official. I don’t hear them, but I do hear Sascha moving around, most probably woken by the doorbell. I pretend like I don’t hear him creeping around the house.

I take my time opening the door, and when I do, I find an angry-looking woman standing there. “May I help you?” I ask, keeping my face blank.

“Are you Cashiel Michaud?”

I glare at her. This must be Sascha’s sister-in-law. Lisa. A young mother who dared to terrify my slave. “You’re at my home; you should know who you’re talking to.” I inform her coldly. “Who are you?”

She puts her hand on her hip, shooting me a glare that might be intimidating if she was in any way relevant. “Look, if you have my slave, you’d better give him back, and you’d better give him back right now before I have the authorities called.”

If Sascha can hear, he must be terrified. I have never wanted to harm another free person so much in my life. “That’s funny, because last I checked, this was private property, which means you are trespassing, and you’ve still neglected to give me your name.”

“My name is Lisa Dover-Gabbamonte, and you have my slave!”

I stare at her for a full minute, silent, until she starts to fidget. Sascha is mine. “Miss Dover-Gabbamonte,” I start, my tone icy. “Why on earth would I have a slave of yours? I don’t even know you.”

Lisa makes an exasperated sound. “There was a boy purchased about a week ago. I’m sure he’d come here! Where is he? Are you hiding him?”

“Miss Dover-Gabbamonte, I have never seen you before in my life. I have never done business with you, so if you please, I’d appreciate it if you took yourself off my property.”

“My husband, Abriel,

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