Chapter 223: Hunters, Part 6

Richard

Elizabeth sips at the wine, then, “I’d not been there long when the door opened again and this time it was Charlotte.” She twists around to look me in the face. “Master, I just wanted to cry when I saw who it was. They shoved her inside and locked the door behind her.” Another sip of wine. “She didn’t seem a bit surprised to see me….”

“No, she wouldn’t. Her entire aim was to get to you. To get them to take her to you.”

She ducks her head, shrinking in on herself. “She really set herself up to save me?”

“Yes, she did. Against everything that anyone could do to stop her. Will Stanton suggested the idea, but Michael and James wouldn’t hear of it. They said it was far too dangerous….”

Do I tell her that I tried to stop Charlotte too?

…. Later perhaps, when she’s recovered….

She digests this. “And those combs she gave me…. It was just an excuse to plant a tracker on me? So, you could find me?”

“It seems so. You can ask her yourself when we get her back.”