“Master Daddy” Chapter 9: Lucien mon Animal
Detective Émeraude finally looked disturbed. Good for him. The arcane clock ticked away as he and Thalyssra worked through nervous energy. He re-organizing his notes. Thalyssra setting her jaw and flexing each of her fingers into a new fist.
Émeraude picked up his gold stylus, “Reprendre l'entrevue Mme Lesauvage.”
And so Sasha Lesauvage, the Dancing Girl, she did.
You don’t throw over a man like that. A man who is more than your husband. At times, Lucien was like my brother. Or my hero. More. It’s hard to explain.
I lost my point—after all that, just put some bars between us, then he gets scared. Even the mighty Minister Sabergryn forgets.
I worry about what will happen to Lucien if he ever truly loses me to the guillotine.
I decided to finally start in on him, “About the trial getting moved up. Luc, I need you to talk to my father—”
“I won’t turn to the Lesauvage for help, Sasha. That’s going straight back to the way things were with Elisande!”
Jolie looked up, for him to be quiet.
“Lucien, my sweet. I have been a very evil woman. I have beat the shit out of people. I have murdered, you know this. If I didn’t order deaths, then I took care of them myself, whenever it came to that. Half the people here in this prison are more terrified now that I’m here. I spend my days getting revenge on the people who targeted my sister Racine when she first got locked up. You should see her now; they treat Racine like the queen of the place now, because of me. Gods, I’ve already been in a few fights, and if I get condemned, you know there will be even more.” I mused aloud, “I don’t actually care about other people, now do I?”
“Yes you do.”
“Not as much as you, my darling.”
He fidgeted, pretended to check one of his cufflinks, then flicked out his wrist and the gold watch there. It wasn’t one that I remember him having.
I hardened myself, at the thought that little minx was buying my husband jewelry and he was getting to the point where he would wear it, in front of me…
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