Jail Bait
“She hadn’t expected Orbilio to pop up so soon. Ordinarily, of course, she’d have mapped out a strategy for dealing with him, but too many events had intruded—Cal, the bear, that wretched funeral—in too little time, with too many sidetracks. And now he was here. The thief-taker, goddammit, was here.
In the Great Hall, she cannoned into a middle-aged woman with a snub nose and hard eyes and the pair of them went tumbling. Stony-faced cow didn’t even apologize, thought Claudia, stepping over the w...oman’s tangled legs and blind to the venomous glare.
You should have anticipated his arrival, she told herself. You should not have assumed he’d turn up at some unspecified time in the future. You should have thought this through—dear Diana, you’ve encountered him often enough. For a start, there was the investigation into your husband’s death. Then Sicily. Umbria. Plus he was around that time—Jupiter, Juno and Mars, what is this? Some kind of maths test? Who cares how many times their paths had crossed, who gives a damn the way his hair falls across his forehead when he’s tired, and come off it, she’d hardly noticed that little scar underneath his collarbone as he lay sprawled on the couch!MoreLess
In the Great Hall, she cannoned into a middle-aged woman with a snub nose and hard eyes and the pair of them went tumbling. Stony-faced cow didn’t even apologize, thought Claudia, stepping over the w...oman’s tangled legs and blind to the venomous glare.
You should have anticipated his arrival, she told herself. You should not have assumed he’d turn up at some unspecified time in the future. You should have thought this through—dear Diana, you’ve encountered him often enough. For a start, there was the investigation into your husband’s death. Then Sicily. Umbria. Plus he was around that time—Jupiter, Juno and Mars, what is this? Some kind of maths test? Who cares how many times their paths had crossed, who gives a damn the way his hair falls across his forehead when he’s tired, and come off it, she’d hardly noticed that little scar underneath his collarbone as he lay sprawled on the couch!MoreLess
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