Frankenstein's Fair Lady by Anitra Lynn McLeod

Author:Anitra Lynn McLeod [McLeod, Anitra Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-10-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

After intense negotiations in the servant’s closet, Adelaide and Loren came to an agreement. Frankenstein tried to intervene but there was little he could do. Even if he had another place to go, he couldn’t make Loren come with him. His tale of doing the right thing for a less fortunate soul held no weight against Adelaide smoothing over Loren’s wrong with a liberal application of money.

Determined not to be caught off guard by the amount she would have to pay at the end of the charade, if successful, Adelaide got the figures from Loren on precisely how much he’d won and from whom.

Watching him list the names and figures showed that Loren had an excellent memory. Frankenstein found himself observing everything in order to help him make a final assessment of his creature’s faculties.

“Now we get to the fun part.” Lamp in hand, Adelaide led the way upstairs via the back stairway.

“Fun?” Frankenstein followed only because he didn’t know what else to do with himself. “How can you think any of this is fun?”

“Frankie, my dear, if you’re going to be a stick in the mud, I will send you to my home in London. Oh, which is where your servants are, by the way. They had nowhere to go and I couldn’t leave them at your home or bring them here so they are watching over my home in London.”

“Thank you, Adelaide.” Frankenstein should have asked after them long before now. “I will repay you.”

“Don’t worry about that.” Under her breath, Adelaide murmured, “Making a fool of Simone will be payment enough.”

Frankenstein felt his energy flagging. The lump on his head from the officer’s truncheon throbbed in time with his heartbeat. He considered asking for another opium-laced drink but then decided keeping his wits about him mattered more than eliminating the pain. Besides, he deserved to suffer. Intellectual curiosity be damned for without that he wouldn’t be in this fix now. He’d be home, in his sitting room, reading about daring adventures rather than having one. Although, to be fair, this wasn’t a daring adventure so much as a comedy of errors. One that, if exposed, could end with him losing his life.

She took them to the east wing. “It’s mostly closed up, and I will let the staff know that they are not to come up here unless I specifically tell them to.” She lowered her voice. “I will not have them stumbling across something and telling tales.”

“But they’ll talk about us wanting privacy.” Frankenstein knew that servants gossiped among themselves and with other households. Eventually, things got out.

“This is where your reputation preceding you becomes a boon.”

Loren lifted his brow at Frankenstein, who looked away, trying to think of something to say but Adelaide beat him to it.

“I can tell them you are conducting experiments while you’re here. Something with electricity.” Adelaide tapped her chin. “Yes, that should keep them well away, I would think.”

“You experiment with electricity?” Loren asked.

“I have been known to dabble.”

“Do you know of Nikola Tesla?”

“I do.

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