A Murderous Affair by Leighann Dobbs

Author:Leighann Dobbs [Dobbs, Leighann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

With the house to herself, Katherine paced the first-floor parlor. Emma trotted at her heels, the clicking of her little claws on the floor periodically muffled as she passed across the rug. Katherine turned and nearly tripped over Pru, who was lounged in a chaise with her feet stretched in front of her. Katherine hopped over her ankles and stumbled a couple of steps before she continued her brisk tour of the room.

“Where is she?” Katherine mumbled under her breath.

Click-click, click-click.

Loudly, Pru complained, “Why are we waiting? If we don’t leave soon, we’ll be late to the meeting. Don’t you want to meet with the others to compare notes?”

Katherine spun to face her. “I do.” However, she craved the information Harriet had to provide more.

Her stomach clenched. What if Harriet wasn’t back yet because she hadn’t been able to find anything? At this rate, Katherine would have precious little to exchange with Wayland in order to discover what he knew.

No, Harriet couldn’t have failed. She was far too gregarious a person. She made friends like Katherine collected books, finding one in nearly every household in London.

“Harriet will return soon.”

“So you said half an hour ago.”

Katherine gritted her teeth and glanced at the open door. From her vantage point in the parlor, she could see the staircase and beyond, on the ground floor, the front door leading onto the street. It remained resolutely closed.

“I know I did, but I promised her I would wait. She’s out to find information for us, information we can use.”

Pru lifted a finger. “Wouldn’t it be better to go to the meeting first, in that case? Then after, we’ll know something the others do not. As it is, we’re set to exchange all information on the investigation.”

Katherine lifted her eyebrows at her friend. “Do you truly think they will be impressed with what little we’ve discovered thus far?”

“How do you know they’ve found more than us?”

She didn’t, of course. However, she had the irritating and perhaps irrational fear that Wayland had outdone her. Worse than the thought of acting the marriage-mad fool during a ball was the idea that she would lose to Wayland. At all costs, she had to prove that she was his equal, perhaps even his better at investigation. That would be the only way he would stop discounting her theories the moment they came out of her mouth.

She clenched her fists.

Emma yipped. Katherine jumped as the dog bolted out of the room, the sound of her departure echoing in the stillness. A moment later, Harriet’s laugh drifted in from the corridor, though its source remained out of view. Katherine rushed to the door, determined to meet her at once.

With a broad smile, Harriet scooped Emma into her arms and rearranged the bow around her neck. “Did you miss me, girl?”

“You’re back. When did you arrive?” Katherine glanced at the door down the stairs, reassuring herself that it was, indeed, shut. It hadn’t opened. She’d been keeping too close an eye on it.

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