A Very Dishonest Scandal (The Hero Next Door Book 5) by Rebecca King

Author:Rebecca King [King, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Later that week, Luke dropped the last of the boxes he carried onto the floor of Thomas’s new workroom. Thankfully, moving Thomas and Rosemary to Wickerstone had been incredibly easy. The Star Elite had been so clandestine when removing their belongings that nobody had noticed anything happening. While they had worked, the Star Elite had all expected Finley Morton to appear at the magistrate’s office with the fob watch’s valuation report, sketch, or description, or even proof of its existence, but he hadn’t. It proved that their suspicions about Morton’s fraudulent scheme were correct.

‘That’s the last of it,’ Luke announced to a distracted Thomas, who was hunched over a highly polished clock.

When he looked up, Thomas blinked myopically up at him as if he were mentally many miles away. Luke was about to repeat himself when Thomas beamed at him.

‘Thank you, thank you. That’s wonderful,’ Thomas cried. ‘I have made space for them, so I will put them up later.’

Luke nodded and watched the man work again but knew from the level of absorption on his face that Thomas wouldn’t hear him if he tried to speak again. With a rueful shake of his head, Luke left the man to work in peace and made his way over to the house.

Over the course of the last few days, Luke had spent little time in the house he now called home. He had tried his hardest to stay away not only to give Rosemary a little peace to settle into her new home, but because he wanted to be involved in closing the shop down. It had become routine for him to leave just before dawn, when he wasn’t required to take the night watch. He had then returned to the house after dark when everyone else was in bed. Consequently, Luke had spent the past few days so exhausted that he had done nothing more than stagger upstairs, fall into bed, and crawl back out again in the morning.

‘Rosemary?’ he called as he pulled the kitchen door open.

Luke immediately froze and studied the transformation of his kitchen in shock. The cobwebs had been swept, the floors scrubbed and polished, the work surfaces, cupboards, and dressers had all been buffered to a high shine. The fireplace had been swept out and washed down. A small vase of flowers sat in the middle of the table beside a freshly baked loaf of bread. A large pale of water sat beside the door, but from it came the wonderful scent of lemons, which made the room smell clean and fresh. If that wasn’t enough to tempt him, the shutters were open, allowing the sunlight to bathe the room in a warm, golden glow that was welcoming and homely. Further, the heady scent of meat pie and ham wafted toward him, tempting him deeper into the room.

Curious to see what other transformations Rosemary had wrought upon the place, Luke ventured into the main hallway of the house. This too had been scrubbed. At

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