To Capture a Rogue by K.J. Jackson

Author:K.J. Jackson [Jackson, K.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-10T18:00:00+00:00

{ Chapter 11 }

Gareth slipped out into the cool night air, closing the door to the gardens quietly behind him. The space was calm, as it should be since the gaming had begun only an hour before inside the Revelry’s Tempest. It usually took several hours before people needed a cool respite in the gardens—respite from too much claret, too much losing, too much of a wandering eye that needed satisfaction.

But still, one of the maids had said she had seen activity in the back corner of the garden, and Gareth wasn’t about to let the report go unchecked.

Rubbing his eyes with the base of his palms, he gave a quick shake of his head, trying to snap alertness into his muddled mind. He had been up for the past day and night with barely a half-hour’s worth of sleep squeezed in. Forcing a fully soused man a head taller than him with brick-like hands into a hack, and then keeping him captive in a room to sober him up had been easier imagined than done.

Gareth craned his neck so he could see the dark windows of the townhouse’s top floor. Not chancing leaving Greyson alone at the Maddox house, he’d had to drag the man to the Revelry’s Tempest and then had shoved him into an upper room. At least Greyson was now finally sleeping off his latest binge.

Taking three steps down onto the main gravel pathway that cut the garden in half, Gareth moved to start a quick round of the corners. He hadn’t made it five strides before a figure jumped out from the deep shadows in one of the rose arbors.

“Gareth.”

He jumped, blinking hard at the figure in the shadows just to assure himself he was awake and not walking about in the midst of a dream.

Pulling the hood of her dark cloak off her head and exposing her blond hair, Nicolina rushed to him, planting herself in front of him. “Gareth, I need your help.”

His eyes scanned the dark recesses of the gardens lined with evergreen hedges. His look settled on his wife. “You told the maid to get me out here?”

“I did. I need your help.”

He stifled a sigh. For the smallest second he held hope that she had shown up in the dark merely to see him. But instead, she only needed his help—and was apparently desperate enough for it that she would risk getting caught in the gardens.

But if her need for his assistance was the only thing that had driven her to be standing in front of him, he’d take it.

He grabbed her arm, pulling her back toward the townhouse. “Not out here.”

She didn’t resist, moving along in step with him as he led her into the Revelry’s Tempest and up the four flights of servants’ stairs to the top floor of the townhouse. He moved down the hallway, stopping at the third door and ushering her into an empty room. The space tiny, wooden beams of the roofline angled sharply down just two feet inside.

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