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“If she changes, I want to know,” Sebastian ordered, giving his sister-in-law a hard look

Within a one

Daas edging over the horizon when the filthy and exhausted h it had been coed to contain the fire to the one room

While they had been fighting the fla Although she had a bruise the size of a goose egg on her teh from the acrid smoke, she appeared to be otherwise unharmed She tried to keep a brave face on her condition, she really did, but in reality she knew she fooled nobody

Her head ached fiercely each tiy just to think That wasn’t discounting the heavy burning in her lungs It was difficult to breathe without coughing all over the place

“I’m sorry,” A

“We need to get you out of this s the paleness of the cheeks, and the brave show she tried to put on for everyone’s benefit

Although the events of the night had been worrying for all concerned, it did confirm that Amelia had no involvement in any of the events that had happened to Sebastian For that he was very grateful

“We will leave i we need for now If we need to do any , we can come back for the day with arh “Amelia needs clean air and some rest”

Alare “You don’t have to leave onto be another of those occasions when Sebastian’s inherent air of coot her reply

“I’m not I think if we stayed, none of us would rest properly There is only one of us who can realistically keep watch at night Even then, we can’t watch all of the s all of the tiht was too close You could have been killed At least at Tingdale, the house can be heavily ar staff to act as extra eyes and ears,” Sebastian added The dark circles under A bruise on her tery “We will leave as soon as we have packed the things we need”

“All done,” Peter replied “Edward is out front with the carriage now Hughes rode one of the horses back to Tingdale e got here, so Edward is going to drive the carriage with the ladies inside”

Within moments, Amelia found herself swept into Sebastian’s ar the red lines of his eyes Whether they were from sot his stamina from

“You already have a luh the ,” Sebastian replied, carefully navigating the steps at the front door “You need to rest”

“Bottle?” Amelia tried to raise her eyebrows, but winced as her bruised temple protested