andari chronicles 05 - daughter of lies by Kenley Davidson

Author:Kenley Davidson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Page Nine Press
Published: 2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Dear Sir,

Taking into account your status as a professional of impeccable reputation, I can only consider your performance thus far to be utterly lacking. If you recall, it was suggested that an accident in the forest was to be preferred, as it simplifies disposal and prevents immediate discovery. As it is, the thing is bungled nearly beyond repair. If I do not receive word of your success by this evening, consider our association at an end.

- Grim Hill

Rom stalked down the streets of Camber feeling utterly annoyed with the world. Three days he’d searched the woods near Louise Seagrave’s estate, enduring mud, brambles and an encounter with a seriously annoyed bear. On the first day, it had rained for the entire afternoon and his horse had thrown a shoe, forcing him to walk back to Lorenhall. On the second, he’d twisted his ankle falling into a whistler’s burrow, and on the third, a pair of vagrants had made an ill-considered attempt to relieve him of his coat and boots.

After all that, he’d found nothing but aggravation and confusion. He had certainly found no trace of the slightly silly Lady Seagrave, whom everyone but he and Quinn seemed convinced was dead.

Perhaps he was the fool for believing otherwise, but according to the only note he’d received from Danward since that fateful night, the only proof of foul play had been a few drops of blood on the carpet, which Quinn had admitted to leaving for the servants to find. He’d insisted they were necessary to produce a genuine reaction from Lady Seagrave’s maid, and to hopefully provoke an entirely different sort of reaction from whoever had hired him.

Despite the lack of convincing evidence, Louise had donned black and insisted her entire household do the same. She maintained that something terrible must have happened and that it was all her fault, a fact which Rom was in no mood to dispute, even to be polite.

If he didn’t find the errant countess soon, he would be forced to send a message to Lady Norelle, and that was not an action he cared to take. For whatever reason, she was clearly fond of the vapid and tactless Lady Seagrave, and Rom winced whenever he thought of his employer’s response should he be forced to admit that he’d lost her.

Where could she have gone? And how could she have disappeared leaving no evidence behind? Granted, she hadn’t been a countess forever, so she knew something of the world, but to the best of his knowledge, the current Lady Seagrave had grown up in the city. She would have been terrified to be alone in the woods at night, and even if she’d survived that and made her way to Camber, she’d be alone in a strange town with no money and no friends.

Was it possible that Louise was right, and she truly was dead?

Rom decided to hunt down some of his local contacts. He’d made several casual acquaintances on the shadier side of Camber

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