A Treacherous Bastard (LORDS OF TEMPTATION #15) by Tammy Andresen EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Kate
Lady Kathryn Fairchild stared at the inside of the closet where she was
being held and swallowed down her lump of fear. Near as she could tell, it
had been four days since she and her sister Anna had been taken from their
carriage on the way to the finishing school Anna had been attending.
They’d been fed sparsely and not allowed out, but at least they’d been
unharmed.
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She could thank the lord for that.
Anna whimpered next to her, and Kate automatically wrapped her arm
tighter about her sister.
Anna was just eighteen. And though Anna had always seemed older than
her age, the last four days, she’d been clinging to Kate.
Kate understood. If their older sister Isabelle had been here, Kate would
cling to her too. As the middle sister, she wasn’t certain strength was her
forte.
She should have worked on being stronger instead of depending on others
to see to her needs. If she had, could she have saved her and Anna from
whatever fate awaited them on this boat?
If they made it out of this, she promised herself, she was going to be a
different woman. One who faced life’s uncertainties and shaped the world
into what she needed it to be.
Because her fate at home had been nearly as terrible as it was on this
boat. Her parents had sold her oldest sister off to a crooked merchant and
received an infusion of coin that had allowed them their preferred lifestyle.
Her sister had managed to escape the marriage, a fact for which Kate was
very grateful.
Except now that they’d spent the money from her sister’s match, they’d
turned to Kate.
It was her turn to marry to the highest bidder. And her parents had already
proven when it came to picking suitors, they didn’t care how foul, just as long
as he paid.
Feet stomped up above, but something about the pattern was different.
More insistent, hurried.
Voices filtered from above, filling the darkness with an ominous tension.
She looked up at the ceiling and held Anna tighter. “Something’s
happening.”
“What?” Anna asked, craning her head up to peer at the floor.
“I don’t know.”
“Do you think it’s good or bad?”
“I don’t know,” she repeated, not wishing to give her sister any false
hope. The crew above seemed worried, but perhaps it had nothing to do with
Kate and Anna.
Perhaps it had everything to do with them.
The closet was not quite big enough for Kate to sit against the wall and
stretch her legs out.
So she stood, training her ear above to try and catch a few words.
The only ones she managed to hear were “bait” and “trap.” Neither made
her feel better.
“Maybe they’re going fishing?” Anna whispered.
“Or hunting,” she replied back, her trepidation climbing up her throat.
Were she and Anna the bait?
Her fears did not ease when a moment later, the door to their closet
yanked opened, light filling the closet as one her captors thrust a torch in the
doorway.
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