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The girls looked down again, not to see the body, but to see the victor. He’d just killed a man, but Nicolo drew their attention as magnetically as ever. That palpable sense of danger, even cruelty, gave an edge to the dominant sexuality that Master Nicolo radiated. And yet…
“What did the man do?” Katy asked.
“Tried to assassinate the Terrible.” Elsie shook her head and worried her apron as she answered.
If the would-be assassin had been taken alive, he would have been tortured in order to reveal whoever he worked for. Thus, in a way, Nicolo had spared him.
“How many is that then?” Katy asked.
“Five this year.”
Five assassination attempts on Master Nicolo. Did they know that killing Nicolo was as good as killing Balduin? Some did, because rumors spread, but most did not. They simply wanted the Terrible out of the picture.
But Nicolo had foiled all of them. He was too clever, too careful, too skilled with the blade.
None of which was good news for me, because I was here in the Castle, disguised as a maid, to assassinate the master.
