Skulduggery by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 - Cimarra

I watered the horses and helped Count Kieran add up the coins we’d brought in the night before as well as any other odds and ends he requested of me. My list of chores was almost endless, but it was how I spent my days and mornings when I wasn’t performing, and how I moved up the ranks to earn the Count’s trust.

Still, the list might have been endless, but I was efficient and hardworking, so eventually I was finished and alone in the room I shared with the other dancers. They were like my sisters, but we still partitioned off our own sections with scraps of cloth we’d found in storage. It was all we had.

I laid upon my pile of soft beaded pillows that represented every color of the rainbow and more, and I had my sketchpad out as I drew a picture of the frisky horse that tried to bite me this morning. Of course, that wasn’t what was really on my mind.

I wanted to draw an image of Wade, but I couldn’t risk it.

The girls around here were nosy little gnats, and they didn’t need to find out about his business or my involvement.

Suddenly, Mira’s stringy blonde head popped into my room. She had a mischievous smile on her face, and her eyes glowed in a way that concerned me.

She might have been my dance sister, but she was also a schemer.

“Guess who just walked through the back entrance and asked for you?” Mira crooned.

“Is it that crazy man again who claims I was his wife in a past lifetime?” I groaned. “If so, throw him out because I don’t care to deal with him today.”

“No,” Mira giggled, “just the dashing young man you spent the other night with. What was his name? Wade? But if you want me to, I can send him away--”

Wade.

“No, no,” I cut Mira off, “I’m coming. Just go out there and make sure Cleo keeps her hands off him. I’ve got plans with him today.”

“Ohhhh, secret plans?” Mira asked as she raised an eyebrow. “Do tell.”

“Mira, please,” I begged her.

“Alright, I’ll stop pestering you.” My sister walked out of the room, and her laughter echoed down the hall.

Then I tried to keep my heart from racing out of my ribcage as I ran a brush through my dark curls and double checked my makeup in the dressing room mirror before I headed out to meet the man in the hall.

I tried not to run out there, but I also didn’t want to walk, so I decided on a quick sashay that could have been interpreted as me practicing my dance moves. As soon as I reached the main hall, I spotted Wade against a pillar looking dark, dashing, and sexy. My mouth went dry and then wet as soon as I saw him, but then I felt annoyance grab my stomach when I saw my other sisters flirting around him like butterflies vying for the attention of a single desert flower.

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