To Seduce an Angel by Kate Moore

Author:Kate Moore [Moore, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780425243695
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2010-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

SOMETIME during the night the rain turned to snow. It snowed for two days until the hedges wore white robes on thin black branches and the paths were buried.

Emma thought of her bread and cheese in the tin in the yew hedge. She would have to begin again, but while the ground lay covered, she mounted a campaign to get her pin back. She announced an end to math and counting lessons. Every hour in the schoolroom was about the words they needed to know to finish the story. She worked them hard, but she put her hand to the empty place in her pocket a dozen times an hour, slumping and falling silent each time she touched the empty spot.

On the second day she made a paper medal for each boy for service to his mates above and beyond duty, and pinned them on the boys’ shoulders with great ceremony. And she watched, for signs that anyone felt the least unease, the least remorse. Swallow and Robin and Finch cast questioning looks at Lark, but he gave no sign that he felt anything.

“Don’t you need your day off to go to the village?” Lark asked on the second afternoon.

Emma whirled on him. “I do, but at the moment, Finch is on my mind. He’s on the edge of a breakthrough, you see, and no one goes anywhere until he gets his chance. Finch?” She turned to the slight boy whose hand usually hid his mouth. She now understood why. He had a chaotic mouth of teeth that crossed over one another and pointed in odd directions. She watched his lips form the word on the slate, and nodded to him to speak.

His hand went up to cover his mouth, and he glanced around at his mates. When his uncertain gaze came back to Emma, she nodded again. “You’ve got it, Finch.”

He dropped his hand and traced the letters with his pencil as he read, “Courage.”

Emma let herself smile, and a broad grin split Finch’s face before he remembered to bring his hand up again. The other boys crowded around him to look at his slate, and punch his arms and ruffle his hair, and pound him on the back.

“Is anyone else ready?”

Lark’s glance quelled any volunteers, and Finch shrank in his seat, looking guilty for his triumph.

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