A Crystal Angel by Dawn Brower

Author:Dawn Brower
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-05-26T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

The sun began to stream through the windows of the bedroom Liam had been assigned at Huntly Manor, bright enough to wake him from a sound sleep. He sat up and rubbed the sleepy fog from his eyes. His gaze fell on the window.

"Should've remembered to close the curtains," he said to himself.

The bedroom door creaked open and Noah stepped inside. Tired from their journey, Liam noticed they both decided to sleep in their clothes, leaving them a rumpled mess. "I thought I might find you awake. I was so tired last night I forgot to close the curtains. As we were all exhausted, I thought perhaps you had forgotten to as well. I see your room is equally as bright as mine."

"Yeah, it sure is. Any chance we can get breakfast this early?"

Noah nodded his head. "Indeed, they are already preparing it. Should we retrieve Lily?"

"Yeah, we have a bit to discuss, though you should be prepared. Lily can sleep through anything and will be quite irritated at being awoken so early."

"I can handle it; I've grown accustomed to Lily's moods from visiting your house the past year."

Liam nodded and got up to follow Noah to Lily's room. They opened the door to find her sound asleep on the bed, the room completely dark. Lily had remembered to close her curtains. She liked her sleep and apparently had enough forethought to remember the possibility of early sunshine streaming through the window. Liam walked across the room and spread the curtains wide to allow the bright light to cascade into the room. It fell in quick succession across Lily's face, illuminating her dark curls, and her wrinkled blue dress. In sleep, she appeared angelic, but Liam knew how devilish his sister could be. The brilliant glow of sunshine was not doing much to awaken her, so he walked over to her bed and began to push on her shoulder. Lily jolted upright, her eyes flying open as they landed on Liam.

"Why are you waking me up? Are Mother and Father here?"

Liam shook his head. "No. We are going down for breakfast and we need you to join us."

"How early is it? I feel like I haven't slept at all."

"It's still quite early, you probably only slept four hours or so." Noah's quiet voice entered the room from his place just inside the doorframe of Lily's room.

"Do we really need to get up this early?" Lily asked.

"Yes, I'm sure we will have visitors soon." Liam held his hand out to his sister to assist her from the bed. "Come on, let's go eat."

They followed Noah down to the small dining room and sat at the table. The servants began to serve them a light breakfast of poached eggs, bacon, and freshly baked bread. Liam picked up a slice of bread and spread creamy butter across it and set it on the plate of food the servant set in front of him. He no sooner picked up his fork to take a bite when the sound of voices interrupted him.

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