Venomous Secrets by Anne Renwick

Author:Anne Renwick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948359313
Publisher: Anne Renwick

“He’s in a cage!” Cait protested. The ire that threaded her voice was not at all manufactured. “What trouble could he possibly cause you?”

Twice now, a misting oil had been applied to eyes that were already failing. The pain and panic written on Jack’s face when he’d woken from the first exposure had twisted her heart.

The oily mist had caught them both. When she’d woken, Cait had found herself strapped to this chair, trapped inside a room where various horrors hung upon hooks driven into the ceiling and walls.

She’d been captured, taken as a prisoner after little more than a full day as an agent. Alone, save for Jack’s unconscious presence, terror and humiliation had twined and twisted in her chest as she’d screamed. But, muffled by walls, drowned out by circus music, and buffered by the wind, her cries for help had gone unanswered.

“The hassles I endure to pursue my work are legion,” the mad surgeon complained as he approached. “Why else install a trap door?” He pointed the atomizer at her face.

Cait held her breath, refusing to give in to the tiny voice that hoped for oblivion.

Contemplative, his lips pressed together forming a flat, annoyed line. “No.” He shook his head and set aside the bottle. “There’s so much more to be gleaned from a conscious patient. Tell me, paidi mou, how do you feel?”

She glared at him.

“Still quite spirited.” Dr. Thrakos smiled, smug. His fingers landed upon her wrist to check her pulse. “Elevated, but no more than one might expect of a woman caught and detained. So many ignore the DO NOT ENTER signs, then act surprised when they find themselves deprived of their freedom.” He clucked his tongue. “There’s no chance, paidi mou, that I would set you free unexamined. I’ve never met another with talents like Kālūnāth Sapera. How fortunate for me, for science, that he found great favor with the ladies. Tell me, have you met any of your half-siblings?”

The implication that her father was—had been—promiscuous and fertile was unsurprising. But Cait’s inebriated mother had only divulged a first name. “Sapera?”

“Were you told next to nothing of your origins?” Dr. Thrakos tapped his chin. “Snake-charmer. Is that all you know?”

Of her father? Very nearly.

As she’d aged, grown wise to the secrets her mother hid from her, Cait had taken note of the strange ring with the black stone that made her father frown.

Instinct connected the ring with her biological father. And, when she’d lifted it from her mother’s dressing table to claim it for her own, she’d hoped the long, silent look they’d exchanged across the breakfast table might lead to revelations. But her father had merely risen and pressed a kiss to Cait’s forehead. “Do try to stay out of trouble,” he’d whispered.

Too late for that.

She and her brothers had already established a secret laboratory in the cellars… and once Logan joined their number, trouble hadn’t been far behind.

“I know plenty,” Cait replied. No matter her hunger for details, she refused to

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