The Queen's Librarian by Cummings Carole

Author:Cummings, Carole [Cummings, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2013-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

“LUCAS, I swear, if she comes at me one more time with those claws, I’m going to—”

“Whatever it is, for pity’s sake don’t say it out loud,” Lucas hissed at Alex and flipped a page. “She’ll hear you and then take her revenge while you sleep.”

They were sat on the floor in Lucas’s main room, every book in the little house stacked around them like a fort. As promised—or threatened, depending upon one’s perspective—Cráwa had beaten them there and had been waiting impatiently on the lane when they’d finally gotten there. Well, Lucas assumed that little superior moue on his face had indicated impatience, but really—who could tell?

“What did you want Parry for?” Lucas had asked him.

“Where shall we begin?” Cráwa had snapped back, so Lucas merely waved him up the walk to the main house.

Lucas hadn’t minded playing the coward and leaving the main house to Dorset and Cráwa, though Alex had been a little disappointed—he’d never seen Cráwa go head-to-head with Lucas’s mother, and it wasn’t likely she’d be pleased to have her house taken over and used as a research laboratory. Lucas overruled the promise of the spectacle by telling Alex there was no way Lucas’s mother was not going to blame Lucas for all of this, and if he had to look at that sad, disappointed expression she trotted out when she wanted to convey her displeasure without words, he might just cry. He felt no shame when Alex caved. Having everyone in the world believe he had the physical prowess and emotional capacity of a twelve-year-old girl should damned well be useful for something.

Lucas waved at Cat and lowered his voice. “I swear sometimes she can understand what we say.” And then he felt stupid for lowering his voice, so he cleared his throat. “And she is not above the occasional sick-up in one’s boot.”

“You say that like it’s something new,” Alex groused and then heaved a long sigh as he slid a book onto the probably-not-the-one-we’re-looking-for pile before taking up another. He shooed Cat away from where she’d darted up onto his lap and tried to make herself comfortable on the open pages. When shooing didn’t work, Alex merely lifted the book and flipped her off it so she had no choice. Cat went, but not without an evil glare and a switch of the tail that held an implicit promise of later. Alex glared right back. “I won’t be judged by a creature that licks itself for fun.”

Lucas smirked. “If you could lick yourself for fun, you’d—”

“Yes, let’s leave that one understood but unsaid, shall we?” Alex snatched a cube of cheese from the plate by Lucas’s knee. “You haven’t even touched your lunch.”

“Lunch” was being a little kind. Lucas had managed to shave off the hard bits from the last of the cheese and put it together with half a loaf of crusty bread that was just making a go at stale but hadn’t quite pulled it off yet. He hadn’t been

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