CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Angelica waited until Rupert was out about some business in the city before she headed down to the cellars and the hidden door that sat there. Rupert probably thought that she didn’t know about any of his secrets yet, but Angelica had always been quick when it came to finding what was hidden, and there was hardly a member of the household who didn’t know the rumors of what Rupert did down here.
The screams of the servant who had betrayed him had given quite a lot of it away.
She moved carefully. She was working to secure the loyalty of some of the staff there, had brought in some of her own people, but she didn’t have all of them so quickly, and it would only take one reporting this to Rupert. She had the bruises on her to declare exactly how dangerously unpredictable h
