T-Girl fairy tale 2
“I’ll not have you speaking about mother in that fashion. You’re lucky she allows you to stay here at all. She could have sent you to serve in the Regent’s Army.”
Jared rubbed the side of his face and thought, ‘I’m just about ready to abandon father’s farm and join myself.’ But he wisely said nothing out loud. In a commanding voice she continued,
“Evelyn and I require your…ah…services in our rooms. Since you do not have anything on the stove for now and mother plans to dine in town with the Earl of Scranton I want you to wait dinner and attend us first. Come Evelyn, let us prepare for Jared’s help in our suite.”
As Jared watched his step sisters swish from the room he thought that Evelyn was holding her hands in an odd way in front of her. To his mind they were just odd in general though so he released a heavy sigh, dampened down the fire so it wouldn’t be out by the time he returned, and followed them from the room.
The sisters were already in the suite when he arrived and the doors were closed. He considered not knocking, but didn’t feel like hearing the ‘Knocking Lecture’ again so he rapped smartly on the dark wooden doors.