Shall We Dance by Kasey Michaels

Author:Kasey Michaels
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-04-22T21:00:00+00:00

“Children! Thank goodness you got my note! Come, come. Georgiana, sit with me,” Aunt Rowena said, patting the cushion next to her. “No, no, Nathaniel, you are not to remain standing there, glowering down at me. Sit! Sit!”

Nate looked at Georgiana, who was fighting a smile, and grudgingly sat himself down on the edge of a facing sofa. “Aunt, I am a dutiful nephew, I really am. But I had expected to arrive here to see you broken and bloody, at the least. Didn’t we, Georgie?”

Georgiana freed her smile. “No, that would be you, Nate. I thought Aunt Rowena’s note was perfectly understandable. She has uncovered new information, and this information needs our immediate attention. There was nothing in it about being broken and bloody. Was there, Aunt Rowena?”

The old woman glared disapprovingly at her nephew. “There most certainly was not. Although, now that you mention it, I suppose I could be in danger, seeing as how I’m the one who’s been given the damning information.”

“Oh, good grief,” Nate said, pulling out a pair of dice he then began rolling through his fingers. He’d paid five pounds to a sharp to teach him the trick. “Another dream, Aunt?”

Aunt Rowena laid one bony hand on Georgiana’s forearm and leaned toward Nate. “So much more than a dream, Natey. The cards. The cards told me all.”

Nate looked at the table between them and saw the Tarot cards and, before he could catch himself, muttered, “Oh, bugger it.”

“Nate!” Georgiana warned, then giggled.

What a brick she was, his Georgie.

“A thousand apologies, Aunt Rowena,” he said, knowing he was coloring to the roots of his hair. “Tell us about the cards.”

“No.”

“What? What do you mean, no? Dash it all, Auntie, we all but broke our necks rushing over here, so don’t you go cutting up all stiff at me now.”

Aunt Rowena sat back and folded her arms over her slender breast. “You are not approaching this with the seriousness it deserves, Natey. I won’t be made a fool of.”

“Too late for that,” Nate mumbled, wisely this time only loud enough for himself to hear. “I’m sorry, Aunt. Please, Georgie and I only want to help. But we can’t do that if you don’t tell us what’s going to happen, now, can we?”

“He’s right, Aunt Rowena,” Georgiana told the woman. “We really do want to help.”

The old woman looked from one to the other, then said, “Oh, very well. Someone is going to attempt to assassinate Her Royal Majesty.”

Nate couldn’t help himself. He knew better, he really did, but he had to ask. “When?”

“Oh? Suddenly you have this deeper interest? Very well, Natey. The when of it is immaterial, for it has already happened. But she escaped without harm.”

“Figures. Can’t say she’s right or wrong, can we, if the queen escaped.”

“Another perished for her,” Aunt Rowena said quietly. “It was all here, in the cards. But there will be another attempt. I feel sure of it.”

Nate looked to Georgiana, whose cheeks had gone pale. “Georgie?”

“She said … she said …”

“I know.

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