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Chapter Six
The haung low and settled on Leila’s shoulder ‘That Gabriel being is still behind us Stubborn’
‘He thinks he is protecting me,’ Leila scoffed ‘Why are humans so very foolish?’
—The Sprite Queen,
Desert Boy Book One
Sam inspected her cabin aboard HMS Lark The linen closet at Sinclair House would fit three of these Once she stepped inside there would be room perhaps for a cat and twoand just about wide enough for a feering pots, but for sleep? Sae had chosen a hammock below decks rather than accept the Post Captain’s offer of the only other cabin on the ship
‘Well, at least if I fall I won’t roll far,’ Sa on a narrow shelf that served as a table Even with half his body still in the passage the cabin shrank fro back hair disordered by ducking under soa few
‘I knew this was a bad idea You should return with Poppy and Janet and wait until they sail on a ers There is still time; they won’t return to Cairo until tomorrow’
That stung As had their discussion that e realised that HMS Lark was a sixth-rate frigate—as fast as any ship sailing the Mediterranean, but hardly built for comfort The Post Captain, a mere couple of years older than Sam, had been shocked to learn he was expected to transport ‘A wolacial stare, but the realities of the arrangee had tried to convince her to ith Poppy and Janet until they sailed on the next availablefor a slower ship ht be hurt trying to find Rafe or he ht even follow his brother’s trail to the Antipodes and the next tiht years The fact that Edge couldthe carriage while he rode a hack on the way back from Richmond Park only made her blood boil
So they’d had their first argument as a married couple
Well, she’d argued while Edge stood like one of the Colossi of Me she’d wear herself out like a tantru toddler She hadn’t and she wouldn’t but in the end she’d adopted the sa put At least he hadn’t physically removed her froe, but he had told them to wait on the quay until he ‘resolved the matter’
Perhaps he’d expected her to change her ements
Well, he’d sorely underestimated her