The Awakening by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Historical Romance
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1991-04-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

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"Well, Amanda," Taylor said loudly, startling her awake so that she nearly fell out of the chair. "It looks as if my assignments bore you, as if you do not care whether you pass a test or not. Perhaps it's me who does not matter to you."

Amanda took a moment to adjust to where she was and what was happening, then she felt a sense of panic. She'd so wanted to do well on this test that she'd stayed up all night studying, which had caused her to fall asleep the moment she'd sat down to take the test.

Her fists clenched at her sides and she once again knew that Taylor's anger was caused by Dr. Montgomery. If he'd never come to Kingman she'd never have ended up going to a dance and being nearly raped, nor would she have had a test at six o'clock on Sunday morning. Nor would she have to see Taylor picking up the blank test paper.

"I can explain," she began, then fell silent. Explain how? she thought desperately, trying to make up a story other than the real one. "I…"

Taylor turned surprised eyes on her. "You have done very well," he said quietly. "I had no idea you were so good at mathematics." He had never given her much tutoring in mathematics, not because she wasn't good at numbers but because he'd never done well at the subject himself. He much preferred the arts and literature. He'd been so angry at her for her disgusting sexual display that he'd wanted to give her the most difficult assignment possible. Her study assignment had been from a beginning book of calculus but her test had come from a third-year book, yet, according to his answer sheet, every answer was perfect. According to this test, she was well past his knowledge of any form of mathematics.

"Good?" Amanda asked stupidly. "But I didn't even understand the questions."

He gave her a cold look. Was she making fun of him? "You have proved your point," he said. "Now go and change your dress. Wear the mauve silk. I do not like that dress at all. And fix your hair. It is coming undone. After breakfast I will inspect your sewing."

He put her test paper on the desk, then turned and left the library so abruptly that Amanda thought he was angry about something other than her sleeping. He hadn't said a word about her blank test paper.

She reached across the desk and took the test paper, then stared at it in astonishment. Neatly, concisely, each problem was answered in what looked to be her own handwriting. Even the fives were made the way she made them. Had she answered the questions in her sleep?

Even as she thought that, she knew it was impossible. It was while she was staring at the test in bewilderment that she saw the folded paper in her lap. She opened it.

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