Trapped By Vengeance (OF SEAS AND TIDES) by Jes Drew EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Konrad
It shouldn’t be so easy to be villainous.
I clench the goblet of ale provided to me by the innkeeper. My seat may
be in the shadows, but surely, she’s felt my stare by now.
Yet the woman sitting at the bar hasn’t glanced my way once. Does she
have no intuition to alert her to the danger she’s in? Or has her wealthy
upbringing prevented her from ever developing such a skill?
Unlike the little girl upstairs. I wasn’t there for her when she needed me
most. If she hadn’t been trained in how to survive from a young age, she
wouldn’t be alive for me to protect her now.
I unclench my teeth enough to throw my ale back, moving in
synchronization with the woman at the counter.
Her metabolism isn’t nearly as efficient as mine is since I was forced to
undertake the Rite of the Moon as a child. Her porcelain skin isn’t as
flushed as the obviously drunk man trying to flirt with her. But her giggles
are far too frequent, and her perch on the stool is becoming more and more
unsteady.
The woman is wearing a target on her back. Not that she had any chance
of escaping me when I have been on her trail since she sneaked out of her
father’s keep. I’m a mercenary by trade and a werwölfe by the Rite of the
Moon.
The moment this drunkard is finished bothering her, there are two more
in the wings, ready to harass her. I do not like the malevolence in their
gazes as they watch her.
Not that I can blame them for looking at her. Even if she were not my
bounty, I wouldn’t be able to help glancing back at her. Her dark hair falls
to her waist instead of being pleated around her head like what is currently
the style for modest mortal women. That it flows so freely, with only a
portion pulled up by a red ribbon, seems both scandalous and enticing.
And that is without considering her sparkling black eyes, bright red lips,
and the heart-shaped face that has no doubt haunted many a poor fellow’s
fantasies. Her gown, a deep mauve, is a simple cut but is clearly made from
the finest silks money can buy. The bodice that seems tighter than a corset
and the flowing lengths of the skirt make Lady Valda of Schwerin
impossible to ignore.
I glance around to locate her traveling companions, but I don’t see any
evidence of someone here knowing her. Everyone is just gawking at her.
“This must be a lark somehow,” I mutter. No noblewoman travels alone.
There’s always at least a lady’s maid, and usually a chaperone as well. And
for a woman with a father as powerful as Valda’s, there is also an armed
guard.
For so long, I’ve determined exactly how to lose the servants in each of
those roles. Now that they are all absent, I am at a loss. I’m not used to life
being easy.
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