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THE INDECENT AGENT By Tracy Cooper-Posey

Adelaide Becket Story 7.0

Historical Suspense Espionage Novelette

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Trouble reaches out to Lady Adelaide from across the oceans.

Lady Adelaide Azalea Margaret de Morville, Mrs. Hugh Becket, English peer and British intelligence agent, receives an unexpected letter from her dear friend Isa Hass in the Cape Colony, which sends her dashing to Cape Town to confirm her suspicions about Isa and the death of Adele’s husband, three years ago.

Spy master William Melville insists that Daniel Bannister, Lord Leighton, accompany her.  Adele complies, even though she resents Leighton’s company, for their nascent relationship ran aground some weeks before.

Adele’s return to Cape Town elicits memories both bitter and sweet, and unlocks the secrets surrounding her friend Isa, provoking a violent and deadly response from the shadowy figures who resent that exposure…

The Adelaide Becket series.
1: The Requisite Courage
2: The Rosewater Debutante
3: The Unaccompanied Widow
4: The Lavender Semaphore
5: The Broadcloth Midnight
6: The Salinghall Error
7: The Indecent Agent
7.5: Adelaide Becket’s Adventures
…and more to come.
An Edwardian Suspense Espionage series

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{Also see: Thrillers, Espionage, Historical, Novelettes}

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EXCERPT FROM THE INDECENT AGENT
COPYRIGHT © TRACY COOPER-POSEY 2022
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SS Runic. Two days away from Cape Town. February 1908.

Adele was both annoyed and pleased that Melville had ordered Daniel Bannister, Baron Leighton, to accompany her to Cape Town. She was annoyed, because to her mind, this journey was one she was fully capable of undertaking by herself. She had not disputed Melville at the time, but for the fourteen days the voyage had taken so far, at least once each day Adele found herself wishing she had protested. If she had, then she would be alone on this voyage, as she had been for the journey back to England, almost exactly two years ago. As she had patently survived that onerous voyage as a new, bewildered widow, it followed that she was just as capable of sailing back to Cape Town on her own.

Yet, right at this moment, she was very pleased that Daniel was a passenger on the Runic¸ for he thought nothing of securing a grand suite that came with a private promenade deck, while Adele could barely afford the smallest first class cabin available, even with Melville’s small stipend. Daniel’s personal deck allowed them to practice in complete privacy, which was a very good thing. If any of the ladies aboard the Runic saw what Adele and Daniel actually did in his suite and upon the deck, they would be well beyond scandalized.

Daniel flexed his shoulders, making the collarless shirt shift and reveal rather more of his chest than a lady other than his wife should ever glimpse, then raised his hands once more.

“Again,” he said shortly.

Adele let her knees relax, ready to move, as she considered the unsmiling man before her. She put her hands on her hips. “Before the next round, we should discuss a shift in the ground rules.”

Daniel straightened a little. Irritation and a touch of puzzlement colored his expression. “Rules? There are no ru—”

Adele launched herself at him, ramming her shoulder into his chest. It hurt, even though she was braced for it, but the “oof” sound Daniel made as he staggered backward was fair compensation for the small pain.

She hooked the heel of her flat man’s loafer around the back of his ankle, and yanked the foot he’d just got under him right back out once more.

Daniel landed on his rear. Heavily.

Adele pushed her broadcloth encased knee into his shoulder, and thrust with her other foot to push Daniel’s back to the varnished deck boards. She rested enough of her weight upon his shoulder to keep him pinned there.

“Bloody hell, Adele…” Daniel muttered breathlessly. “You took me by surprise.”

“I do hope you’re not about to protest that I wasn’t playing by the rules?” she asked coolly, ignoring the oath.

“As there are no rules, I can hardly complain about you failing to follow them,” Daniel replied. He patted her knee. “Let me up, please.”

She got to her feet and brushed off the trousers she wore. They and the man’s shirt were one reason she was glad of the private deck. The peculiar exercises Daniel and she conducted upon the deck was the other reason. The sight of them would shock all the gossipy peers on the ship into next month.

“You said yourself that I must make up for my lack of strength with another factor,” Adele said.

Daniel felt around his rear, and winced. “I did,” he admitted. “I didn’t think you’d heard me.”

“There is nothing wrong with my hearing.”

“And I didn’t think you’d take this sort of tack, either.” He pulled his shirt together, then grimaced as he found a button had been torn off. Their earlier rounds had been far more strenuous. He unfastened the remaining buttons and stripped the shirt from him.

“I thought the point was for me to learn how I might overcome men, who are naturally stronger than I, as I am only a woman,” Adele said. “Have I not overcome you, more than once, this morning?”