in4 by Your Wicked Ways

Author:Your Wicked Ways
Language: eng
Format: epub

"Probably not," Tom said, patting her hand again. "But I don't know a thing about music either."

"Oh," Helene said. "That's a shame." She was beginning to feel altogether more cheerful. So what if her husband had a ladybird next to him on the couch? Why should it bother her? She could have had the Earl of Mayne or any number of others offering her compliments, if she so wished.

She got up with just the slightest stumble and walked back over toward the fireplace. "I forgot to say hello to you," she said to Rees.

"Helene," he said. Far from cuddling up to his mistress, he was scribbling on a piece of paper and looked utterly unaware of the tensions circling through the room.

Helene seated herself next to Lina, ignoring Tom's little gestures of anxiety. "We probably should discuss a few things," she said, trying very hard to remember what they were.

Lina's eyes were bubbling with amusement in a way that reminded Helene of Esme. Not that Esme was an improper woman. No. No indeed. She'd lost track of her thought again.

"I believe we should have supper now," Tom said, rather desperately.

"Rees, why don't you summon Leke and tell him that we must eat?"

Rees shook his head without looking up. "Cook and Cook alone determines when the household sits to a meal. Leke will fetch us when the food is ready."

"That's a very nice gown you're wearing," Helene told Miss McKenna.

Miss McKenna blinked. I suppose, Helene thought to herself triumphantly, she expected me to be outraged, and now she doesn't know what to make of me.

"I think we should discuss Rees," Helene added, without waiting for a response. The brandy was giving her a lovely warm feeling of confidence.

"If it is quite all right with you, I would like to borrow him once a day."

Tom was scolding his brother in an undertone. Helene heard him say,

"Well, why didn't you tell me that she never drinks spirits?"

"From what I remember, I only need around five minutes of Rees's time,"

she told Miss McKenna. "That truly is a lovely gown, by the way." It was an odd color of orange that gave Lina's skin a tawny glow.

"Sometimes Rees is good for seven minutes," Miss McKenna said with just a hint of laughter in her voice. "I would give him the benefit of the doubt."

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