Stolen Bloodline by L G Rollins

Author:L G Rollins [Rollins, L G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Hard. As it turns out, wooing Ju was very hard.

Jasper rested an arm across his eyes, letting his head sink deeper into his pillow as Mr. Zhi, livid, shouted and stomped back and forth at the foot of Jasper’s bed. Apparently, Jasper would not be sleeping in past sunrise today.

The ghost seemed as though he might be ranting for a while so Jasper let his thoughts travel back to the one person who never left his mind.

After leaving Brox’s place a few nights previous, Jasper had spent hours lying awake in bed thinking over his new realization—that he loved Ju and wanted her in his life. Granted, they hadn’t known each other long, but loads of couples got engaged after only a few weeks acquaintance among the ton, especially during the season.

The next morning, Ju had come with her mother to his place, as they’d arranged. Both at the house and later during shooting practice, Jasper had done all he could. He flirted with Ju, gave her his most dazzling smile, complimented her.

None of it worked. She smiled back, teased him mercilessly, and seemed to enjoy his company, but nothing more.

What the blazes was he doing wrong?

“And you didn’t keep him long enough for me to speak with him?” Mr. Zhi, in all his blue-ghost glory, yelled at Jasper. The fact that he was dead seemed to do nothing to dampen his ability to make a room shake with his voice.

Jasper sighed and set aside his unanswered questions regarding Ju’s affections. “Well, perhaps I’ll send you a missive requesting your presence next time I need to interrogate a blackguard.” Jasper said, his tone full of sarcasm. “Tell me, just now does one send a letter to the next world?”

Mr. Zhi muttered something which sounded like “rash idiot” and “joking about those things he doesn’t understand”, but he mixed in enough curses even Tressa would have been impressed.

Jasper rubbed his eyes. “Like I told you. He isn’t going to be of any more help to us, except as a witness in court. We need him on our side and keeping him tied up for two days would hardly convince him to help us.”

Mr. Zhi’s scowl grew thunderous. “He tried to shoot my wife.”

“Because his family was being threatened.”

Mr. Zhi’s threats, mixed with more than one colorful curse, grew until Jasper couldn’t think for the noise.

“Why not go after him yourself?” Jasper asked, throwing off the covers and sitting up.

“I just might seek out this Wixcomb and—”

“Not him.” Jasper waved dismissively in Mr. Zhi’s direction, then stood and pulled on a shirt. “I meant Ambassador Leng. If you really want to protect your wife and Ju, why don’t you kill him? It’s not as though you need to fear being hanged.”

Mr. Zhi didn’t respond, but his brow dropped lower.

Jasper pulled on a pair of breeches, not bothering to tuck his shirt in. “I know that, ghost though you may be, you are far from helpless.” He’d heard plenty of stories of ghosts attacking the living.

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