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She smiled the cool, confident smile of a woman entirely in control. “The Vespiary is my responsibility now. I know what I’m doing, Tarquin.”
“I certainly hope so, Perdita.”
She handed back the file with a steady hand, determined not to show Tarquin her doubts. Everything he said was true. Gabriel was rash and impetuous, and marrying in haste only demonstrated that he still had much to learn. But the Vespiary was the best place for him to learn. And time would be the best teacher of all.
She gave her brother a small smile. “Don’t fret, Tarq. I won’t let him back in without paying a price for this. He’s broken the rules and he must do penance for it. He’ll have to earn his way back, and he will start at the bottom.”
Tarquin nodded slowly. “Yes. It wouldn’t be good for his character if we just let him walk through the door. What did you have in mind?”
Perdita cocked her head, thinking. She went to the map pinned to the wall, tracing a thoughtful finger across the sea until she came to China. She took up a pin and thrust it directly into the heart of Shanghai.
“I know exactly where to send him. And once he’s there, he’ll have to make a choice. It’s us or her.”
Tarquin picked up the photograph again and shook his head. “Shame, really. Looks as if they really believed in happily ever after.”
Perdita’s eyes were pitying. “There’s a war on, Tarquin. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.” She smoothed her skirts. “I’ll type up the orders, shall I?”
Tarquin nodded. “I’ll sign them when you’ve finished.”
Perdita left as silently as she had come, and Tarquin slipped the photograph into Gabriel’s file.
“The choice is yours now, Starke,” he murmured. “I hope to God you make the right one.”
About the Author
New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a double major in English and history and an emphasis on Shakespearean studies. She taught high school English for three years in San Antonio before leaving education to pursue a career as a novelist. Deanna makes her home in Virginia, where she lives with her husband and daughter and is hard at work on her next novel.
ISBN: 978 1 472 07497 3
WHISPER OF JASMINE
© 2014 Deanna Raybourn
Published in Great Britain 2014
by Harlequin MIRA, an imprint of Harlequin (UK) Limited
Eton House, 18-24 Paradise Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1SR
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental.
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Harlequin MIRA is a registered trademark of Harlequin Enterprises Limited, used under licence.
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She smiled the cool, confident smile of a woman entirely in control. “The Vespiary is my responsibility now. I know what I’m doing, Tarquin.”
“I certainly hope so, Perdita.”
She handed back the file with a steady hand, determined not to show Tarquin her doubts. Everything he said was true. Gabriel was rash and impetuous, and marrying in haste only demonstrated that he still had much to learn. But the Vespiary was the best place for him to learn. And time would be the best teacher of all.
She gave her brother a small smile. “Don’t fret, Tarq. I won’t let him back in without paying a price for this. He’s broken the rules and he must do penance for it. He’ll have to earn his way back, and he will start at the bottom.”
Tarquin nodded slowly. “Yes. It wouldn’t be good for his character if we just let him walk through the door. What did you have in mind?”
Perdita cocked her head, thinking. She went to the map pinned to the wall, tracing a thoughtful finger across the sea until she came to China. She took up a pin and thrust it directly into the heart of Shanghai.
“I know exactly where to send him. And once he’s there, he’ll have to make a choice. It’s us or her.”
Tarquin picked up the photograph again and shook his head. “Shame, really. Looks as if they really believed in happily ever after.”
Perdita’s eyes were pitying. “There’s a war on, Tarquin. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.” She smoothed her skirts. “I’ll type up the orders, shall I?”
Tarquin nodded. “I’ll sign them when you’ve finished.”
Perdita left as silently as she had come, and Tarquin slipped the photograph into Gabriel’s file.
“The choice is yours now, Starke,” he murmured. “I hope to God you make the right one.”
About the Author
New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a double major in English and history and an emphasis on Shakespearean studies. She taught high school English for three years in San Antonio before leaving education to pursue a career as a novelist. Deanna makes her home in Virginia, where she lives with her husband and daughter and is hard at work on her next novel.
ISBN: 978 1 472 07497 3
WHISPER OF JASMINE
© 2014 Deanna Raybourn
Published in Great Britain 2014
by Harlequin MIRA, an imprint of Harlequin (UK) Limited
Eton House, 18-24 Paradise Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1SR
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental.
By payment of the required fees, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and licence to download and install this e-book on your personal computer, tablet computer, smart phone or other electronic reading device only (each a “Licensed Device”) and to access, display and read the text of this e-book on-screen on your Licensed Device. Except to the extent any of these acts shall be permitted pursuant to any mandatory provision of applicable law but no further, no part of this e-book or its text or images may be reproduced, transmitted, distributed, translated, converted or adapted for use on another file format, communicated to the public, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher.
Harlequin MIRA is a registered trademark of Harlequin Enterprises Limited, used under licence.
www.mirabooks.co.uk
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