{"id":9192,"date":"2017-08-15T20:52:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2024-01-21T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T15:29:21","slug":"unraveled-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9192","title":{"rendered":"Unraveled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unraveled<\/a><\/em> (2011) Courtney Milan<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Set in England in 1843.<\/p>\n

Smite Turner is known as Lord Justice–a magistrate who takes his duties very seriously. <\/p>\n

Billy Croggins licked his lips. \u201cLord Justice. Please. Have mercy.\u201d <\/p>\n

The man shook his head. \u201cThe proper form of address is \u2018Your Worship.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

Croggins frowned. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn any event,\u201d Lord Justice continued, \u201cif the house had truly caught fire, you might have killed your daughter and your grandchildren.\u201d He paused and looked round the room. <\/p>\n

He stole the breath from his audience, packed a thousand years of expectation into those bare seconds. If this had been a performance, Miranda would have applauded the perfection of his timing. But this was no play, put on for public amusement. This was real. <\/p>\n

Lord Justice looked back at the defendant. He spoke quietly, but his words carried in the waiting silence. \u201cI am having mercy, Mr. Croggins. Just not on you. Not on you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s said his married to his job, and because of his past, that’s fine with him.<\/p>\n

Smite woke, jerking upright, swallowing a shout on his lips. He could hear it ringing around him, and he felt that old sense of embarrassment. Not that it mattered; there was nobody else about. What servants he employed lived outside his home; he\u2019d arranged matters that way for this very reason. He gulped breath and urged his heart to cease racing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Smite knew he was being rude, retreating from the conversation as he was. But he had little truck with easy conversation. Nothing about him was easy; why should he pretend otherwise?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the things I particularly like about this story is that there are no stupid misunderstandings due to lack of communication.<\/p>\n

She twirled her hair around her finger. \u201cI assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face. You did ask for honesty, after all. It seemed to be a matter of basic common sense. When one is threatened by a shadowy criminal figure, one goes to the magistrate that shares one\u2019s bed rather than the shadowy criminal figure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Have mercy.\u201d The man shook his head. \u201cThe proper form of address is \u2018Your Worship.\u2019\u201d Croggins frowned. \u201cIn any event,\u201d Lord Justice continued, \u201cif […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,30,33,41,26,56],"tags":[50,128,557],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-british","category-historical","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-courtney-milan","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2og","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5717,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5717","url_meta":{"origin":9192,"position":0},"title":"Unraveled","author":"Michelle","date":"March 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Unraveled (2011) Courtney Milan Set in Bristol. 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