The Devil Comes Courting (The Worth Saga #3)

by Courtney Milan

They continued to look at him as if he were a talking centipede who had suddenly developed a fatal case of the manners. “My

She managed to bite back her words before her megalodonic enthusiasm overwhelmed the conversation. She could imagine her mother’s reproach. Nobody wants to know more megalodon facts, Amelia.

Something terrible was happening to Amelia’s imagination. Lay submarine cable should not have sounded like such a euphemism, but she could not help but think of the process—long, thick cable being laid in the watery depths—

“The world is going to grow in the shape of the wires we lay, and nobody is thinking about what that will look like. They don’t ask what it will mean if all we talk of is business and news from the wealthy and powerful.”

had not realized.” “It’s done via load line.” She turned to look at him. “Ships have lines drawn on them to represent what they can carry and in which seas. That way, you never forget that a ship that shows no difficulty in one harbor may flounder in a different sea. All carrying capacity varies with circumstance.”

“I asked you to do something that had never been done before. I hired you because I had no idea how to do it. There was nothing I could do to help you but convince you that you were capable of doing it.”