보관함
검색
홈 / Werewolf / THE FATED HEARTBOUND: Played by Fate, Matched by Grace. / Chapter 11: The Debt She Still Feels

공유

Chapter 11: The Debt She Still Feels

작가: Kammelu Christian
last update 게시일: 2026-10-20 05:15:11

Made a list that night. First one in two years.

Rain Anderson promised started around dusk. Sat at the small desk in the guest suite, sheet of paper, pencil stub from the drawer. Cole outside the door. I heard him shift now and then like a man who'd learned to stand still without getting stiff.

Wrote four words down the left side. Money. Papers. Place. Mrs. Elizabeth.

Under Money, nothing. No coins, no work. The only thing I owned was the shirt I was wearing, and Mrs. Pell lent me that.

Under P
이 작품을 무료로 읽으실 수 있습니다
QR 코드를 스캔하여 앱을 다운로드하세요
이전 챕터 다음 챕터
잠긴 챕터

최신 챕터

  • THE FATED HEARTBOUND: Played by Fate, Matched by Grace.   Chapter 24: First Inconsistencies

    Dinner was set for twelve, and I was put at the far end.Maria arranged the cards. Mrs. Elizabeth at the head; Clifford on her right; Anderson across from him; Lady Brannock next to Anderson. Maria took the seat beside Clifford. My card was between Mrs. Teague and an envoy named Orrin, who ate fast and talked to his plate.Nobody put me far enough away to be rude. Only far enough that I would not be seen.Kept the white gloves on. Soup came and held the spoon in my gloved hand, trying not to drip on the blue silk. Mrs. Teague told me about her daughter's wedding in the spring. Said that sounded lovely. She told me about it again.Cole stood by the sideboard with the other servants. Told him he could eat in the kitchen. Said he wasn't hungry.Tilly was serving the fish. Youngest girl on the floor, arm still bandaged under her sleeve. Came around the table with a platter, leaned across me; a little sauce slid off the edge and spotted the cloth.Went white. "Sorry, miss.""Only the cloth

  • THE FATED HEARTBOUND: Played by Fate, Matched by Grace.   Chapter 23: Clifford Arrives

    Mrs. Harlow carried the blue silk up on the morning of the dinner, folded over both arms the way you would carry a sleeping child. Laid it across the bed and smoothed it flat. Didn't look at me. Maria came in behind her with a pincushion strapped to her wrist and a small sewing box. "Stand on the chair, please. I'll be quick. Know you're tired." Stood. Cole turned to face the window. The dress went on over my head, the cool and heavy smell of cedar and Mrs. Elizabeth's lavender. Been in a chest for two years. Far too big. Hung from my shoulders like a coat on a hook. Maria knelt and started pinning the waist, hands quick and sure. Mrs. Harlow held them. "Color suits you," around the pins. "Mama wore this to every council dinner. I always thought it was the prettiest thing in her wardrobe." Sleeves ended just below the elbow. Forearms came out thin and bare, with a few yellow marks still fading and the crooked pale line across the wrist. Mrs. Harlow saw it when I did. "Could let

  • THE FATED HEARTBOUND: Played by Fate, Matched by Grace.   Chapter 22: Maria's Quiet Panic

    Tilly was back from the village before the breakfast tray was cleared.Asked her the night before, with Mrs. Pell's blessing, to buy thread on the green. Came up the back stairs. Cheeks red from the cold. Paper packet in her good hand. Cole opened the door. She walked past him like a girl who had practiced it."Mr. Hobb's shop is the one with the clock in the window," she said. "The clock is always wrong. I asked about the comb, just like you told me. I said my mistress's mother had a silver one with blue stones and wanted to know if it was being mended.""What did he say?""He laughed." Scrunched up her face to get it right. "He said he hasn't had silver on his bench in a year. Watch springs and wedding rings, that's all he does. If anyone said they left a comb with him, they must have meant the city.""Did he check his book?""He did. Twice. He was very nice about it." Held out the thread, as if it was proof. "It was never there, Miss Sandy."Sat down on the edge of the bed. The com

  • THE FATED HEARTBOUND: Played by Fate, Matched by Grace.   Chapter 21: The Request

    Practiced it on Cole first.Early, before breakfast. He stood by the door, hands folded. I sat at the desk with the list in front of me and said the sentence out loud to hear how it sounded."I would like you to help me find a mate. Someone suitable. For stability and independence so that I can leave the Pack cleanly."Cole's face didn't move. "Is that for me?""For Anderson. I wanted to hear it first.""Not supposed to have opinions.""But?"I looked at the ceiling for a moment. "Sounds like something read out at a council. If I were him, I'd think you had it written on a card.""I do. In my head.""Then put the card down." Flat. "Say what you want. Not what you've decided he'll agree to."I looked at the paper. Under Papers, in my own writing, the line about Anderson's mark for the lease. Been thinking about that line for two days. The room over the baker's would need his signature. Job would need his signature. Every door I wanted to walk through had his name on the other side of i

  • THE FATED HEARTBOUND: Played by Fate, Matched by Grace.   Chapter 20: The Decision Forms

    The list was still on the desk under the pencil where I left it.Read it by the grey light from the window. Money. Papers. Place. Mrs. Elizabeth. Next to the last one in my own hand for four weeks. Nine days have gone since the night of the open window. Dr. Hale said four weeks from then, maybe more. So about nineteen days left, and I could count them.Wrote that number to feel better. Hadn't worked. Nineteen days was close, and I had no idea what I would do on the twentieth.I put on a plain shirt for my walk. Cole came behind me. Sun only a pale patch in the cloud; grass crunched a little under my shoes. Frost, the first of the year.Went to the gate this time. Not the oak, not the kitchen garden. Main gate at the end of the drive where the iron stood open every day for carts and riders.Had not been this far since the car brought me in.The road ran away north between low stone walls. Empty. A few crows sat on the wall; the wind smelled of smoke and cold earth. I stood with my hand

  • THE FATED HEARTBOUND: Played by Fate, Matched by Grace.   Chapter 19: Wigglesworth's First Crack

    Tilly came up before the tea this time. Stood inside the door with a good hand tight around the bandaged one."Sat with Nell at lunch yesterday. Like you told me. Didn't ask anything. After the bread, she cried a little into her soup, then she said one thing.""What did she say?""Mr. Wigglesworth asked her for the key to the clerk's room. The little one off the Alpha's study." Ears went pink. "I wanted it tonight after the house was quiet. Told her not to mention it to Miss Maria."Set down the cup I was holding."Nell said it was the first time he ever asked her for something he didn't want Miss Maria to know. Said she felt sick about it. Didn't know which of them to be more afraid of.""Did she give him the key?""Said she'd think about it." Look at me. "Is that bad?""No. Thank you, Tilly. You did exactly right.""Do I tell her anything?""Tell her she can have lunch with you every day if she wants."Nodded hard and went out. Cole watched her go, then looked at me. Looking back, n

더보기

다른 추천

좋은 소설을 무료로 찾아 읽어보세요
GoodNovel 앱에서 수많은 인기 소설을 무료로 즐기세요! 마음에 드는 작품을 다운로드하고, 언제 어디서나 편하게 읽을 수 있습니다
앱에서 작품을 무료로 읽어보세요
앱에서 읽으려면 QR 코드를 스캔하세요.
DMCA.com Protection Status