He Asked Me to Die Again, So I Named My Price novel · Chapter 8 of 24

Chapter 8: Under My Roof

Yvette woke alone in the guest room next to Calla's, with her dress folded on the chair and her body aching in several good places.

She did not remember coming upstairs.

She remembered his hand on her back at the study door, and his voice saying go to bed, and the door closing.

"Conquest progress," said the system.

"Not now."

"Forty percent."

Yvette sat up so fast the blanket slid to the floor.

"Forty? It was eighty-three."

"Target response has been reduced."

"By what?"

"Unknown. The target's emotional readings dropped sharply at two fifteen this morning."

She stared at the ceiling.

That was after the study. That was after he had held her.

She dressed with unsteady hands and went down to breakfast with her pulse loud in her ears.

The dining room was full.

Dorothea sat at one end with a cup of tea, and the family lawyer sat beside her with a leather folder open on the cloth. Calla was at the other end, eating toast under protest.

Alaric stood at the sideboard, with his back to the room and a cup in his hand.

He had not slept. Yvette could see it in the line of his shoulders.

"Good morning, Yvette," Dorothea said warmly. "Do sit."

She sat.

"I am afraid I must raise something unpleasant." Dorothea took a folded paper from the lawyer. "We checked your references, dear. The hospital has no record of an application. Our own inquiries found nothing."

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