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It’s funny how your life can come apart in an instant. How you can feel safe and satisfied one moment, and the next you’re dangling over an abyss, no warning, no quarter. You’re absolutely about to fall.

There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you’re quit of them.

I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel the shape of him beside me. I wanted him to touch my hair. To kiss me, long and velvety slow.

I hate it here. I hate everyone here. I hate that I am so different. I love it here and I want to belong and I know that I never will.

I want to love, and be loved.

My neck was slender and long and I could bend it nearly all the way about to take in my body: also slender, also shining.I was a dragon of gold, as if Jesse had touched me and transmuted me but not taken my life. I was sinuous and covered in lustrous golden scales, all the way almost to the tip of my tail, until they faded into purple.I had a mane, too, mapping a line down my back. It looked like a ruff of silk or cut velvet. I folded my neck around almost double so that I could rub my chin on it. Silken, yes, but also jagged. Combing my chin through it sent quivers of pleasure down my spine.Then I saw my wings. They were folded against my back, metallic. Without knowing how I did it, I opened them, using muscles I didn't even have as a person. ... I slashed my tail through the rain and realized that it was barbed when it hit an oak tree and I got stuck.No problem. I pulled it out and danced around, delighted at the fresh, gaping hole in the trunk. ... If the shark-hunters or lance-bearers came for me, I'd chew them to chum.

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There are certain moments in life when hard, hot truth shines at you like a spotlight from heaven, like the focused beam from a lighthouse on the shore of yourself, and you find yourself stripped naked in its light. You can’t hide from it. You can’t close your eyes and wish it away. It’s truth; easy truth or unbearable truth, either way, it won’t be vanquished. And there you are for all to see, stuck in its merciless glare.

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No." He caught her back to him, spreading his fingers over her uninjured cheek. "Listen. When you were twelve years old I saw you for the first time. Truly saw you. And from then on, I took note whenever our paths crossed. You were so quiet it was difficult to believe you sprang from the same messy bloodlines as the rest of us. You had modesty and grace. You didn't flirt, and you didn't give quarter." His palm slipped from her face; he took up both her hands. "If the other maidens of the shire were garish bright stars, then you were the midnight around them, silent and mysterious and all the more interesting for it. I accepted you as that, mouse. I still do."-Kit

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There are things in this world," she said steadily, still holding Zane's eyes, "that defy easy words. There are things in this world worth protecting, fragile things, secret things. Things that would do great harm should they ever be handled carelessly.""Rue." The marquess loomed just beyond her."Things like magic." She touched a finger to Zane's cheek, a shock of warmth. "Things like love." -Rue, Zane, & Kit

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Eleanore," he whispered again, tilting his head to mine, his lips skimming past my cheek, his breath in my ear. "I'd wait forever for you, you know. If it mattered. If you'd care.""I do care," I whispered back, miserable.His fingers tightened, warm and firm. "No, you don't. Not the way I mean. Not yet.

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I confess, as much as I enjoy you in breeches, you hold up that gown rather well."She studied him through the eyeholes. "You truly have stopped trying to be charming.""You're the most ravishing creature in the world, sweet Rue, even when hidden behind feathers and beads. How was that?""Adequate, if insincere.""Then you mistake me." He took up her free hand and pressed her fingertips to his lips, gold to gold, sending a flash of sudden, sensual warmth stealing up her arm. His voice dropped to a huskier note. "I am utterly sincere."-Kit & Rue

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He straightened. "Are you ready?""Yes." He nodded, his gaze traveling the length of her body, deliberately, slowly, as if to memorize her as she stood."Then may I have a kiss?" he asked, unmoving. "For luck?"She felt her heart pick up. She felt her face grow hot."You see? I'm asking, not demanding." He lifted his hands to her, palms up. "Even the most beastly of us can learn."Rue dropped her gaze to the ground, discomfited. "I don't think you're beastly.""Thank goodness. I was about to point out that that fellow down there has far worse breath than I do."She laughed softly, shaking her head, but by then his fingers were curling around hers."Is that a yes, mouse?"She inhaled: heat, and animal. Him.Rue lifted her chin. "Yes."Everything happened so gently at first, so languidly, as his hands drew hers behind his back so that she had to step toward him, so that their fronts had to touch. As soon as they did his fingers released; he smoothed his palms up her back, one hand at her waist and the other rising to cradle her head. She felt her hair bunch and slide with the passage of his fingers. She felt the cool air on her skin, and the welcome warmth of his chest and stomach and hips. His eyes roamed her face with that half-lidded intensity; she brought up a hand to the slope of his shoulder, resting it there. They stood there together in the open dark, soft and hard, while her stomach tied in knots and her hair stirred with the breeze.She wet her lips, nervous. "Are...are you going to do it?""I am." His head tilted to hers. She felt his lips against her cheek, light, thistledown, barely there. "I just...""What?" she whispered, staring out into the shadows."I just like looking at you."So when he kissed her she was smiling a little, her lips curved under his. Kit loved that curve. -Kit & Rue

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Kit opened his eyes."Where is she?"The voice was high and thin and directly by his left ear-also the location of the blade pressed up hard against his jawline."Where is she?" the voice demanded again, whispery words nearly spilling over one another in fury. "Tell me, you bastard! I'll kill you!"Options flitted through his mind: this person was small, this person was young, it smelled like an urchin, the blade felt like a dagger or dirk. He could break its arm or its neck, he could Turn and crush it from behind or more simply rip off its head-and the only thing that kept his body motionless in the bed was the realization that the creature was obviously speaking of Rue."Zane," she said then, a single word that broke like a calm dream through the chamber. "Please do not kill the Marquess of Langford." -Zane, Kit, & Rue

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I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that, and I want it badly. Every time I look at you, I want it."-Kit to Rue

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The marquess lifted his palm to her, a man held in wind-tousled grace, waiting; still as the eye of a tempest was still, inexorable force only momentarily at bay. The heels of his shoes rested at the very, very edge of the rooftop. If the wind changed, if he lost his balance-Beyond him were only trees and sky, the dark-misted storm sweeping emerald hills up to heaven."You are mad," Rue said again, but she found herself moving toward him. His fingers closed over hers; he raised her hand to his mouth and held it there, warming her skin with his."I prefer the word dashing.'She huffed a breath, almost a laugh."Oh, and one more thing." Above their locked fingers he granted her a new smile, this one slow and blazingly sensual. "Little brown-haired girl... I did notice you."He Turned to smoke. -Rue & Kit

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It wasn't only you, Lord Langford. It was this place, these people. This life. I want nothing to do with it.""It's a bit late for that, Rue. Whether you like it or not, we are your blood.""Half my blood.""Aye," agreed the marquess, sober. "Although 'twould seem you've gotten the better half by far. All beauty, none of the beast."She blinked at that, and crossed her arms."How charming! Had you planned that for long?""Only since this morning." He shrugged, unabashed. "I'll do better in London.""Please, don't bother." "I'm afraid I can't help myself. I'm charming by nature." And he looked back at her now in utter and wicked innocence, snaring her in a world of sharp, splendid green.-Rue & Kit

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Sun's down," muttered one of the guardsmen by the windows."Then it's time." Grady made to push away from the table, and the rest began to follow."No," said Kit.Grady paused with his palm pressed flat against the tabletop; all the other men froze. "What?""No," Kit said once more, very polite. "Be seated. All of you.""Why are we wasting-""Be seated."Even his old nemesis knew to obey that tone. It sliced across the room slick as steel, resounding into silence. The guard at the window let fall the drapery, a soft stir of cloth that barely touched the air.He could almost feel his father's ghost, watching, waiting.Christoff remained silent until they were done, until the last of them had sunk into nervous attention, staring at him through the gloom."I claim her," he said. "I will hunt her alone." Grady twitched. "But-""I claim her," he repeated, silkier and more deadly than before. "She is mine. And if you have issue with that-any of you-I invite you to tell me now. We'll settle it here. I will not abide insubordination."Reckless, red-faced, Grady shot back to his feet. Kit was on his own in half a heartbeat, his arm slashing out, a streak of metal flashing across the table.The stiletto struck deep into the wall mere inches behind the other man's head, the hilt of carnelian and worked gold an ominous blur against the silk.Silently, weightlessly, the outermost curl of Parrish Grady's wig drifted down to the dining table, settling feather-light against the dark wood.No one else moved; no one spoke."I beg your pardon," said Kit cordially into the hush. "Was there something you wished to say?"Grady looked down at the severed lock, then back up at Kit. His throat worked, though no sound came out. Slowly, in awkward motion, he resumed his seat."Excellent." Christoff sent a cold smile around the room. "Anyone else?"-a guardsmen, Grady, & Kit

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Are the family lists complete yet?" he asked George."Aye, my lord. We've gathered the names of every possible successful runner for the last forty years. Not many men, I'll tell you that. Six at most, and all were thought to be very much dead. Four apparently lost to fire-you remember the blaze that leveled the tavern in '33-one to drowning, and one bloke to, ah, wolves."Kit raised his brows. "Wolves?""That's what his son said. Stirling Jacobs was his name. Liked to hunt at dawn. Liked a challenge. Known to venture out beyond our boundaries. Bones were found, possibly his. That's all.""How old would this man be now?""Let's see...nearing eighty, I'd say."Kit gazed at him over the mess of china and papers."Your instructions were to consider everyone." George shifted in the chair, uneasy. "And I've bloody well considered everyone."-Kit & George

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Zane gestured to the table."Did you see what I brun-brought?"She shook her head, turning back to the papers. "I've read these.""Not that one. Nipped it from The Spotted Dog. Last week's news, but I thought you'd like the bottom-right bit.""At least your reading is coming along.""An' I washed my face last Sunday," he said virtuously.-Zane & Rue

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Shocking," said one of a pair of fashionable young ladies seated upon a bench. She lifted her newspaper closer to her nose, scanning the print by the waning light. The spectacular loss of the Monfield gemsones was included in all five evening editions of the London papers."Indeed," agreed the other, smoothing the pleats of her petticoat. "They didn't even mention the bracelet. And it is particularly fine."The first woman lowered her paper. "You know that wasn't what I meant, Rue.""Wasn't it? Oh. I suppose then you were referring to the midnight duel in which the valiant duke fought off the thief before being overcome by the fellow's kick to his nether regions. That is rather shocking, I concur. I can't imagine how anyone could reach past that royal belly for a good kick.""Rue," said the other woman, but her gray eyes were narrowed with mirth."Plus, it was well after midnight. My legs were beginning to cramp in that miniscule closet.""Rue.""Yes?""A lady does not gloat."-Mim & Rue

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We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.

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There's a word for this in English," he mused, still soft. "I can't recall it. I've made you a...a fallen women. Yes?""Yes," I agreed, still smiling. "Thank you ever so much.""It's been entirely my pleasure," he said in Romanian, and I turned my face into his sleeve and began to laugh.

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Im going to kiss you, Eleanore" he said quietly, still looking at her. "Not now. Later." His eyes cut back to mine. "I thought it fair to tell you first." I stilled. "If you think you can do so without me biting your lip, feel free to try." His gaze shone wicked blue. "I dont mind if you bite." "Biting your lip off, I should have said." "Ah,Lets see how it goes, shall we?

I wasn’t even certain if my wings were meant for flight. I hadn’t exactly had any luck with it the one time I’d tried.I could glide, though. Probably.Maybe.Should worse come to worst, I could smoke up to them. Turn to dragon right there, dig my claws in, and hang on. That might do it.Looked like I was about to find out. What I hadn’t thought about, what I’d completely managed to forget about, was that I wasn’t exactly skilled at maintaining my transformed shape, either. The reminder came to me rather forcibly as I was streaming my way east, over the channel, and felt myself beginning to solidify.No. No!Yes.Several thousand feet up in the air, I Turned back into a girl. Screaming, cartwheeling, everything topsy-turvy purple as gravity reclaimed me and I plummeted down to the water.fly! sang the stars, weighing in past my screams. fly, beast!It was a damned near save. I was a girl and then I wasn’t, managing the Turn so close to the sea that the foam from the cresting waves splashed up through the smoke of me.Good thing I didn’t have a real heart just then. It would have stopped entirely.

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I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating.

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I think the word despair is much too small to encompass the magnitude of all it defines. For me, right then, despair meant that everything within me-my organs, my spirit, my hope-plunged down into a place of utter density, of blackness so heavy and bleak I had no idea how to lift any of it up again.I can’t do this. I’m just Lora Jones. I can’t even remember how to tell a shrimp fork from an oyster fork. I can barely find middle C. I can’t save Jesse and Armand and the castle. I can’t defeat them all.But I had to. We were going to die unless I did.

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He mouthed the words to her that she could not see, and that she could not hear. It was all he dared tonight, strangers in a castle, strangers to this land, their future a great black question mark and an ending he could not foresee. He bent his lips to her ear and said without breathe:Lia-heart. Little dragon. I love you too.

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Right,” I said once more, because it sounded firm, and because Armand’s brittle desolation was beginning to eat at me. None of this, after all, was his fault. “We get him downstairs. We sneak him out of the castle, back to your motorcar. You take Jesse to a doctor and take your father home. Lock him in a room, pour some wine down his throat. Laudanum. Whatever you have to do to keep him out while I get rid of the guns. None of this ever happened.” I looked at Jesse. “Are there hidden tunnels to use? So no one sees?

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I thought that ground fire couldn’t reach the zeppelins,” I said. “I thought that guns on the ground didn’t have the range.”“Eleanore. Do you imagine for one particle of one second that he was thinking clearly enough to fathom that?”“He was thinking clearly enough to fathom all of this,” I retorted, my hand flung out to encompass the roof. Blood stained my palm. “Clearly enough to have men haul all these crates into the castle in broad daylight all week long, so that everyone could see them and wonder what was actually inside!

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Lia, all that I am is what I do. I'm not meant for a tame sort of life, to dwell in bucolic splendor. I'm a city rat. I ache for it. I was made for it. And I wouldn't expect you to live as I do. I wouldn't want that for you. But its all I have to offer.""Then--I accept."He brought a hand to his forehead and began to laugh. "Its like being snared in a sugartrap. You wont listen.

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Armand towed me up and Jesse hustled me away. I staggered against him, looking past his shoulder just in time to see my nightgown dance over the rim of the roof, a twirling, empty ballerina blowing away to the stars.“That was stupid,” I said loudly.“Too right it was.” None of Armand’s fury had left him.“No, I mean you. Both of you. Following me like that. You could have been killed!”“We were doing well enough until you-did that! Went to smoke like that.”“He couldn’t shoot smoke!”“He could have shot the half-wit on top of him!”“But he didn’t!” I swallowed, a lump of something sick rising in my throat. “I didn’t kill him, did I?”Armand seemed to shrink a little. He looked back at the duke and shook his head. “No. I think you knocked him out. He’s breathing.”“Has anyone a coat?” I asked, and found myself crumpling down to the roof, a leisurely sort of collapse. Armand grabbed me by the arm again and I managed to remain seated instead of prone. “Dragon-girl.” Jesse was stripping off his shirt. “Bravest girl. I keep telling you to eat more.

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It is considered an honor to be…plucked from the crowd, so to speak. There are fine families in the district who have lived here for generations, none of whom have been so favored with the duke’s attention. Yet I wonder if it’s not truly His Grace himself behind this invitation, but his son.”“Perhaps there’s a piano aboard.”Her nostrils flared. “Don’t be pert. This is not a matter of jest, Eleanore. If you go on that yacht, your every move will be scrutinized. Your every word will be dissected. Your manners must be irreproachable, and they must be so at all times, even if you believe you are alone. Do you understand me?”Do not steal anything. Do not belch or scratch your arse.“Yes, ma’am.”“Should Lord Armand choose to favor you with his attention, you will react politely, graciously, but always with an aloof, dignified demeanor. It could be that he believes you to be…less than what you are. You will show him the error of that thought.”“Yes, ma’am.”He’d already seen me naked. I supposed everything from there would be a step toward dignified.“Do you still have the bangle he presented to you?”The cuff, I wanted to correct her. As if I was going to lose it.“I do.”“Wear it. Let him see that you value it, but take my strong advice on this, Eleanore. Do not accept another such gift from him. One is permissible. Two becomes a suggestion.”“Oh.”“Do we understand each other?”“Yes, ma’am. We do.”A smatter of laughter and applause reached us from beyond the open window. Some of the girls had set up a game of lawn pins, and the sudden crack! of a ball hitting its mark echoed through the room.“One last thing,” said Westcliffe.“Yes?”“Wear your uniform. It won’t hurt to remind everyone of where you belong.”I puzzled over that for the rest of the bright day.

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By the next afternoon, a shepherd boy had heard his shouts and he’d been hauled up the cliffs and confined to an empty pigeon house, the sole survivor of his doomed mission.Gone cracked, though, from the ordeal. Ranting in perfect English about dragons and a young woman who could fly.No one believed him. A few people swore the airships had suffered lightning strikes, although the night had seemed so clear. A few more vowed they’d spotted them off the bluffs and fired at them, and that had brought them down.Whatever it had been, everyone seemed certain of two things. It had not been a dragon, and it had not been the poor, tormented Duke of Idylling.

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The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had to hang there on the ladder and read every spine of every one until you came across yours.Let it be said that nothing was ever accomplished in haste at Iverson.

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They fire lots of bullets very, very quickly. Quicker than anything else.”I looked up and around the bedroom, the mismatched furniture, the weirdly firm light. “Why? What could you hunt with those? What could they have to do with anything?”“I don’t know,” he replied. “That’s what’s so unnerving.”I rubbed a hand to my forehead, feeling an ache beginning to build behind my skull. “Armand.”His eyes went to mine.I had to say this carefully; I had no wish to add to his despair, but I couldn’t let it go. “Do you think…do you suppose it’s possible that your father might…mean to do you any harm?”But I’d actually made him smile. A real one, too, even if it came acerbic and thin. “With a pair of Vickers? Not unless he means to mount them in the hallway and spry me with bullets when I’m not paying attention. Seems like rather a spot of work for him. Surely even an unwelcome heir is better than none.”I returned his smile as I pulled away my hand. “I think we need to teach you how to Turn to smoke, just in case. It’s a handy thing to be able to vanish in a hurry.”His smile widened, but there was no humor left to it. “Handy.” He fell back against the blankets of the bed, his eyes gone shiny and hard. “If I could vanish into smoke, Eleanore, I’d leave this place and never return. That’s a promise.”“Just like Rue,” I said softly.

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There were seven of them. They smiled seven identical smiles, and the message behind each was identical, as well. It read: bloodbath.

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All this is simply your reaction to my Gifts. You never loved me before, not in all those years. Now that you who I--what I can do, you've convinced yourself it's more than it is. Its simple instinct.""Perchance you're right. But the result is the same, isn't it? We were meant to be together in life. That's our law, because that is our instinct, the natural order of our kind. Strongest mates to strongest."She took the steps necessary to stand before him. She held out a hand to him and he accepted it, lightly, his fingers cradled hers. "This is not life, Rhys.""No." He studied their locked hands, the pulse in her wrist. "But it is still love. Just as I loved you when we were young--""Stop it," she whispered."My heart beast for you." He released her fingers and gave her that faint, sardonic smile."I am going to marry Hayden.""I know. And I'm still going to love you." The smile deepened. "Sorry.

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But this man...this powerful, lovely man was not afraid of her. He was also a beast, and an earl, which seemed to be something like a prince in this country, and he was not afraid. And he was tender, and he was strong, and he was drakon.

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He had a swift and utterly lucid vision of himself in this position in thirty-odd years. Loathsome tea, hot steam, silver spoon, and fifty-year-old Chloe seated opposite him talking about clothing, because to her it was categorically, absolutely, the most fascinating topic on the planet.Besides, of course, herself.For an unflinching instant, Armand wished with his whole heart that he were dead.Then, at the very edge of his perception, something changed.He glanced up.She was passing by the doorway, walking with that fluid, nearly animal grace that no one else seemed to capture or even notice.He was given four steps of her.One: She moved from the hallway shadows into the light cast from the parlor. He saw her illuminated, drab colors gone bright; her skin alabaster, reflective; her hair tinted pink and gold and pink again.Two: Her gaze met his, finding him past all the other people crowded inside the stuffy mirrored room, dying by inches and taking their tea.Three: He was paralyzed. He couldn’t move, couldn’t smile, couldn’t nod. He was pinned in the gray of her eyes, a prisoner to their piercing clarity.For an unflinching instant, Armand felt his heart explode like a firework, and the future seemed unwritten.Then four: Eleanore looked away and passed the doorway. He was stuck with tea and dresses once more.

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I didn’t think students were allowed below the main floor. I knew the kitchens were there, as were most of the servants’ quarters; the professors and Mrs. Westcliffe had their own aboveground wing on the other side of the castle. No one had ever specifically told me not to go below stairs, however-probably because a true Iverson girl would never, ever dream of mingling with the help.I could always say I’d gotten lost. The pillars of the world would hardly collapse. The sky would not shatter. I was barely a hairbreadth away from being the help myself.

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Your Royal Grace, Forgive my boldness. If I might inquire: How old are you? —Kimber

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Your Grace: Others come. Prepare for Invasion. —M.

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Perhaps it was the silken dress on my body or the golden roses at my shoulder, but I had determined that I was going to be the most perfect, delightful charity student the duke had ever encountered. I was going to stand correctly, speak correctly, smile correctly, listen attentively. I was going to make him positively reel with my perfection, so I added another “Very,” with a trace more of awe. Mrs. Westcliffe granted me a glance of approval.“The duke designed it himself, every corner. When completed, Tranquility will feature some of the most modern and superb workmanship in the kingdom. Of course, with this dreadful war dragging on, finding enough laborers to finish it all has become something of a chore.”I wanted to ask about the fourteen years before that, but today I was the perfect charity student. So I merely nodded in sympathy.How do you do, Your Grace? So sorry to hear about your lack of peasant workers. What a rather large bother this war with the Kaiser has turned out to be!

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I am wed now. My husband is Zane. I’m sorry.

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I guess you'll have to be a sodding duke now," I tried-clumsy, tasteless, and he only winced."Sorry." I covered his hand with mine. "That was dumb.""No, you're right. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't been stewing about it. Me and Reggie both. I think it's safe to say that this isn't remotely what either of us wanted.""I'm sure you'll do swimmingly.""Bugger that," he said, tired. "And bugger Aubrey, too. I wish I could say that to his face, even if he did go down a hero in a dogfight. Tell him what an ass he is for dying. For leaving me here like this.""I know."His hand twisted around until it covered mine.

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Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed?

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But Holms had proven stalwart and valiant. When Miss Jones had shown up to discover them in the castle hallway, because she’d heard a suspicious noise and had feared for her schoolchums’ safety, they’ d had to bring her along. She’d wanted to run straight to the headmistress, of course, but Armand had persuaded her not to. How he regretted that decision now!The duke had fired his guns at them all. They’d retreated, thought to go to the automobile to fetch a doctor and the sheriff, but they’d stumbled the wrong way and fallen down the slope to the beach instead. All three of them. And there, noble Jesse had died.Fact. Fiction. Likely because so much of it had happened, and because Armand’s red-eyed, stoic distress seemed so genuine, the adults around us had accepted it as truth.Mostly.I think if I hadn’t been discovered wearing only Armand’s coat as I knelt next to Jesse’s body, Mrs. Westcliffe might have found the whole thing easier to swallow.Yet the official version ruled the day. And here we all were basking in it, breathing fresh sea air, warmed by the generous spring sun. Burying a hero. A far, far greater hero than anyone standing around me at his funeral would ever suspect.Somewhere in deep-blue briny waters, a U-boat rested, filled with live torpedoes and solid-gold men.I thought I better understood Rue’s letters now. I understood her warning about the pain that would come with my Gifts.I understood my sacrifice.

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You snore.” “I don’t!”“Only a little. Very ladylike snores. I found them charming.

How good to see you, Miss Jones.”That debonair tone, the friendly press of his hand upon mine. It was such a contrast to our final moments in the cottage that I couldn’t help but smirk.“Thank you for having me,” I replied, loudly enough for the duke to hear.“But I haven’t,” said Armand under his breath. “So far.”I tugged back my hand. “Ever the gentleman, aren’t you?”“I try. Come aboard, waif. Come and experience a gentleman’s world.

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My, my,” Chloe murmured, studying the chocolate she held. “I do believe this one’s gone off. It stinks like a cesspit.” Her eyes lifted. “Oh, wait. It’s only the guttersnipe.”“Or perhaps it’s your perfume,” I said cordially. “You always smell like a whore.”“It’s French,” retorted Runny-Nose, before Chloe could speak.“Then she smells like a French whore.”“Aren’t you the eloquent young miss.” Chloe’s gaze cut to Sophia, standing close behind me. “Slumming, little sister? I can’t confess I’m surprised.”“I’m merely here for the show,” Sophia said breezily. “Something tells me it’s going to be good.”I took the brooch from my pocket and let it slide down my index finger, giving it a playful twirl. “A fine try. But, alas, no winner’s prize for you, Chloe. I’m sure you’ve been waiting here for Westcliffe to raise the alarm about her missing ring, ready with some well-rehearsed story about how you saw me sneaking into her office and sneaking out again, and oh, look isn’t that Eleanore’s brooch there on the floor? But I’ve news for you, dearie. You’re sloppy. You’re stupid. And the next time you go into my room and steal from me, I’ll make certain you regret it for the rest of your days.”“How dare you threaten me, you little tart!”“I’m not threatening. You have no idea how easy it would be to, say, pour glue on your hair while you sleep. Cut up all your pretty dresses into ribbons.”Chloe dropped her half-eaten chocolate back into its box, turning to her toadies. “You heard her! You all head her! When Westcliffe finds out about this-““I didn’t hear a thing,” piped up Sophia. “In fact, I do believe that Eleanore and I aren’t even here right now. We’re both off in my room, diligently studying.” She sauntered to my side, smiling. “And I’ll swear to that, sister. Without hesitation. I have no misgivings about calling you all liars right to Westcliffe’s face.”“What fun,” I said softly, into the hush. “Shall we give it a go? What d’you say, girls? Up for a bit of blood sport?”Chloe pushed to her feet, kicking the chocolates out of her way. All the toadies cringed.“You,” she sneered, her gaze scouring me. “You with your ridiculous clothing and that preposterous bracelet, acting as if you actually belong here! Really, Eleanore, I wonder that you’ve learned nothing of real use yet. Allow me to explain matters to you. You may have duped Sophia into vouching for you, but your word means nothing. You’re no one. No matter what you do here or who you may somehow manage to impress, you’ll always be no one. How perfectly sad that you’re allowed to pretend otherwise.”“I’m the one he wants,” I said evenly. “No one’s pretending that.”I didn’t have to say who.She stared at me, silent, her color high. I saw with interest that real tears began to well in her eyes.“That’s right.” I gave the barest smile. “Me, not you. Think about that tomorrow, when I’m with him on the yacht. Think about how he watches me. How he listens to me. Another stunt like this”-I held up the circlet-“and you’ll be shocked at what I’m able to convince him about you.”“As if you could,” she scoffed, but there was apprehension behind those tears.“Try me.”I brought my foot down on one of the chocolates, grinding it into a deep, greasy smear along the rug.“Cheerio,” I said to them all, and turned around and left.

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