The Message That Couldn’t Wait

Laura opened the note immediately, not bothering to move back into the drawing room. She frowned as she read the hastily scrawled lines:

I require your presence immediately. The boy will have brought a hackney cab and ordered it to wait for you.

Placing a hand to her throat, she felt the pulse racing there. She forced herself to take a deep breath, and then she told Aya, “I must go to Saffron House immediately.”

Her maid frowned. “The gall of her, to order you about as if you are a servant.”

“No,” Laura said thoughtfully. “She is not normally so forceful. I fear something is wrong.”

—From Lady Wynwood’s Spies, Volume 9: Shelter

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