Chapter 40
I hadn’t expected Sarah to make a decision that very instant. So I wasn’t disappointed when she murmured polite evasions and drifted off down the hallway in the opposite direction from the one in which I was headed. The whiteness of my mother’s face, however, suggested she was giving the subject serious thought. And that, I decided, was a definite step in the right direction.
For my part, I made a beeline for the servants’ quarters, aiming for the work areas that flanked the numerous staff bedrooms making up a full quarter of Eddie’s home. Because it had occurred to me that Sebastien might be hunting me just as I was hunting him. Better to settle upon a single, predictable location and stay there rather than having our respective peregrinations carry us both further and furthe
