The Devil May Care (Brotherhood Of Sinners #1) - Plot & Excerpts
The women, faces carefully concealed with velvet or feathers or satin, were already half-unlaced from their gowns. The men, a colorful mix of Spanish grandees, exiled French aristos, and rich Portuguese and Moorish traders, were drunker even than usual, carousing through the gilded rooms and bumping into priceless antiques as if they were hay bales. It was, after all, the apocalypse. Word had reached them this morning that Napoleon’s army would be at the city walls within days, and all this wealth, all this freedom would be taken from them as cleanly and heartlessly as a trapper strips the pelt from an otter. The rank air—full of the smell of cigars and drink and sex and fear—nearly gagged him. He’d already passed two pairs openly coupling in the corners of rooms, and it wasn’t yet midnight. Before another hour had passed, there’d be an outright bacchanal. He wished himself back in that little bathing room in Rosa’s house, bright with candlelight and scented with lavender.
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