Almost Yours (Ladies of Scandal Book 3) by Hilly Mason

Author:Hilly Mason [Mason, Hilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-27T23:00:00+00:00

Later that day, Isla was shown to her new bedroom. She stared at the room appreciatively. She had a room to herself in Ramsbury House whenever she visited, as well as a room at Alban Castle in Scotland, so she was used to fancy furnishings.

It wasn’t the expensive furniture and decorations that caught her eye, however. On her four-poster bed an old baby quilt was folded up neatly, with a stuffed bear placed on top. Isla walked over to the bear and picked it up. She brought it to her nose to smell it—to trigger any sort of memory she had with it—but she came up with nothing.

She felt like an imposter, that she had intruded on another young woman’s life. But the Murrays were still convinced that she was her daughter, and they hadn’t given her a large enough reason for her to doubt them.

Her eyes filled with tears as she walked with the bear over to the window and looked outside. The sun was setting to the west, marking the end of her first day in Pennsylvania. Was this how she expected to feel, incredibly lonely and confused? She sank to her knees and clutched the bear close to her chest.

“Isla, are you all right?”

She turned to the sound of her mother’s voice. “I’m fine. It’s just been a long trip over here,” she told her truthfully.

“Will you be joining us for dinner, then?”

“Of course.” She looked down at toy in her arms. “Did I play with this bear often?” she asked, somewhat wistfully.

Her mother paled, and Isla thought she could see tears forming in her eyes, although it could have been a trick of the light. “It used to be mine, when I was a child,” she remarked. “And yes, you played with it a bit before you… disappeared.”

It seemed that her mother didn’t want to talk further about it. Isla nodded and sat the bear back down on the bed, then followed Mrs. Murray downstairs to the dining room.

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