Cassandra rose from the bed and looked around, realizing that she is not by the streets with her dead mother but inside a household she is not familiar with. She does not know which is more alarming.
Her heart started pounding erratically when she heard another crash. She was used to the everyday riot around her before, she will not be scared of this now.
What if Madame Blaire is in trouble?
She had to do something about it.
She went out of the bed and padded her way out of the room. When she got out, the noise grew louder and more alarming. The second landing is dark with only glimpses of the light from the moon and the lampposts outside.
“Curse you, woman! I’ll deal with you right now!” a man shouted and she flinched when she heard a slap then another and another.
She stood by her
