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A knowing smile played on his lips, but it faded the moment someone chose the inopportune moment to knock on the door

“We will discuss the aze slipped over her body in the licentious way that heated her blood “Once ensconced in uarantee ill suffer no disturbances” He crossed the rooest you hide beneath the sheets Miss Trimble is most likely on the warpath”

Panic took hold, though it had nothing to do with encountering Miss Trimble’s wrath “What if it’s Mr Wincote?”

“Then theinto his home in Brunswick Square”

Verity pulled the bedsheet around her body and slipped out of bed She grabbed a candlestick, ht of the door and nodded for Lawrence to proceed

Lawrence yanked open the door, jerked his head back in surprise “Youdown to retrieve a package He peered out into the corridor and then shrugged “Soift”

“A gift?”

He closed the door and brought the package to the bed The words Lawrence Trent were h after a quick search it was apparent the sender had left no return address

“It’s a book” Lawrence felt the size and weight before tugging on the string to reveal the leather-bound voluuess which one”

“Vathek” Her heart lurched “It’s from the Brethren” Her pulse pounded in her neck while she waited for hih she knehat to expect

“De from the neat script “Beware the Brethren” He snorted in as? Could they not have thought of so less predictable?”

Verity gripped his arm “Everyone who’s received the book ends up dead”

“We don’t know that Sebastian Vale is the only person we knoho died after receiving a warning There is no evidence Charles possessed a copy”

“What about Joseph Bradley?”

“The bookto his brother You saw the library Isaac Bradley has a copy of every book known to man Until we know Joseph received a similar threat, we cannot make assumptions”