Ruling with a New Frame novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Mercy Is Not Pardon
I went down on my knees beside her on the carpet.
"Do not lay her flat," I said, and my voice cut through the shouting. "Uncle, Father, lift her into a chair."
"Sitting up, with her feet on the floor."
They lifted her between them.
She weighed almost nothing in her black wool, and she hung from their arms with her mouth open.
"The man from Albany," I said. "Dial nine, one, one. Say sixty-eight, heart failure, fluid in the lungs, pulse over a hundred and twenty."
"Housekeeper, open the window. Somebody undo her collar."
A cousin had her fingers at the buttons before I finished.
I laid two fingers on Marguerite's neck.
The pulse ran, fast and uneven.
I pressed my ear to her back, between the shoulder blades.
The crackle was there, low on both sides.
Her chest was filling from below.
"Does anyone have aspirin?" I said.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Ruling with a New Frame are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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