CHAPTER EIGHTCecil took Matilda into his arms, soothing her after her hysterical outburst. When she had finished sobbing she managed a smile and wiped her eyes.
“Sometimes I can’t help doing that,” she explained shakily. “I mean to be strong and brave, but then I remember how powerful he is, and how he can be everywhere at once.”
“Please ma’am, don’t talk like that,” John begged. “You sound like Rena. According to her he divided himself into two this morning, then merged back and vanished.”
“John, that’s most unfair,” Rena protested. “It was an illusion, because I was upset.”
“But what did you see?” Matilda asked, wide-eyed.
Rena again described the incident, but this time leaving out the part where Wyngate had tried to make her his mistress. And she tried to make light of the ‘appear
