I Accidentally Slept With My Future Brother In Law novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: The Foreman
I tore the bed apart anyway.
Mattress, bolster, the herbarium books stacked on the floor.
Blanche woke up in the middle of it and sat on the rug in her nightgown, watching me.
"It's gone," she said.
"It's gone."
"Who has a key to these rooms?"
I stopped with a pillow in my hands.
Every key in the palace hung in one office.
The Lord Chamberlain's.
Bertrand came to the kitchen yard at half past eight with his ledgers under his arm.
He heard me out without a word.
Then he took out his watch, looked at it, and put it back.
"Then you don't come to council," he said.
"I could tell them what I read."
"And my cousin will ask to see it. And you'll have nothing in your hands but tea." He shook his head. "A charge without the book is a gift to him."
"So I do nothing."
"You pour," said Bertrand. "And you keep your eyes open."
He went off to council.
Alistair stayed at the trestle all day and poured beside me.
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