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Lashton Sounds: Chapter Two
Gellert and his bodyguard are kidnapped by the Laithes.
Gellert Osgodby is beginning to settle into his position as Lucien Pike’s secretary, but nothing in Lashton ever stays the same for long.
Chapter One / / Chapter Two
“There are too many of these fucking people in this fucking town,” Gellert mumbled into his forearms, and across the table from him, Cosmo softly laughed, shaking out his hair.
Like his father, he wore it long, but it was thicker than Pike’s, and it sat in a cloud of volume on his shoulders, blond streaked with lilac. Cosmo had a delicacy to him that neither Pike nor Damien carried with them — he was limp-wristed and moved with a natural sashay, and spoke with a lisp he often tried and failed to repress.
“We could take a few more of them out for you, Mr Osgodby,” he said — damn near simpered — and Gellert raised his face from the tabletop and rested his chin on the backs of his hands.
Cosmo smiled at him, one of his feet reaching out to brush against Gellert’s under the table, and Gellert looked at him very flatly before Cosmo sighed in a put-upon manner and drew his foot back. Leaning back in his seat, he tipped his head back against Damien’s hand, which was rested on the back of his chair.
