Behind the Mask by Megan Derr EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Megan Derr
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Kasumi eyed the man before him, grateful for the mask that hid his
distaste.
So this was the brilliant Lord Luther Hatcher-Rosque?
He was not impressed.
A brilliant man, they had been told. Intelligence beyond compare,
with looks and poise to match.
The man before them now was tall but…disconnected looking. His
glasses were crooked, hair spilling free of a bright blue silk ribbon, and his
clothes looked as though his valet had pressed them while heavily
intoxicated.
If this was the man with whom his master was to be keeping
company…Kasumi wondered if he might arrange a parting of ways.
Fingers pressed lightly at his back, warning him to remain still.
That his master was so easily able to predict his thoughts was
disconcerting, but Kasumi was used to it.
He did not take his eyes from Lord Hatcher-Rosque. Surely this
clumsy looking man was not the one about whom they had heard so much?
He was a veritable buffoon, hardly worthy of his master…
A soft word drew his attention and he turned smoothly to follow
Master Minoru up the gangway and into the waiting ship. Silent, elegant, a
masked mystery whose presence would do much to dissuade impertinence
and threats.
No one would touch Minoru, and if he had his way that idiotic
looking fool would not come near enough to converse. Master was a man of
honor and dignity; he did not consort with fools.
Three months, this journey.
Kasumi was beginning to doubt those months would pass with any
sort of speed. He half hoped for some excitement, but did not let the
thought carry far enough for the gods to make note.
A scuffling noise behind, a startled gasp, and he turned sharply
around to catch Lord Hatcher-Rosque before he could fall to the deck.
Sneering behind his mask, he let the clumsy man go once he was securely
on his feet.
“Thank you,” Hatcher-Rosque said politely, smiling.
Kasumi turned sharply away to rejoin his master, who had gotten
several paces ahead.
“Do not mind Kasumi,” Master Minoru said with one of his gentle
smiles. “He was happy to help.”
He begged to differ, but would not argue his master in public.
“Come,” Hatcher-Rosque said, brushing back a strand of his messy
hair. “I will show you your quarters.” He pushed past them, stumbling often,
and led the way below decks, finally pushing open the door of a small
cabin.
Kasumi stifled an unseemly sigh. Why could they not simply travel
to places that did not require the sea? Land he could control. Sea he could
not. These small places were also not to his liking.
“I would be more than happy to join you and the Captain for dinner,
my Lord.
Extend my thanks to him, and thank you.”
A few minute of bumbling talk and they were finally left alone. The
door closed with a click and Kasumi allowed himself to relax a notch.
“You were all but hissing, Kasumi,” Minoru said with a chuckle.
“That utterly harmless, charming lord just offends your sensibilities doesn’t
he?”
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