Defiant Heart by Jeanie P. Johnson

Author:Jeanie P. Johnson [Johnson, Jeanie P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Sebastian was startled out of his deep thoughts, by a banging on his office door. He had closed his office, but was trying to pull his spirits back up as he sat gazing across the room in frustration. He had finally gotten to the bottom of what had happened on his ship, and sent young Ned packing when he discovered his part in the abduction, of Eleanor. Only according to Ned she was not Eleanor, but a flower girl named Rose. He even showed Sebastian the dress she had been wearing at the time and Sebastian was angry at the danger Eleanor had deliberately put herself in, in order to learn more about him. For it was very clear that all she did was ask questions about him, and it turned out to be Ned who had informed her about his affair with Annie.

Now that that part of the mystery was solved, it only confirmed his fear that Ned had taken advantage of Eleanor, while she was unconscious, of all things. But of course, Ned thought her to be just a homeless flower girl, whom he would convince to remain with him, once she discovered she was trapped on the ship. Sebastian may of done the same thing if he had been in Ned’s situation, and he thought back to his youth and the women he had seduced over the years.

Ned paid the price though, considering he had used Sebastian’s office to conduct his nefarious affair, and brought a woman on board, which was not allowed without the captain’s permission. The lad would have to look elsewhere for another position on someone else’s ship.

Now Sebastian looked up through the pane of the door, where he could see Teddy banging, holding a newspaper in his hand. He looked excited, and Sebastian jumped to his feet to let him in.

“You will not believe this, Sebastian! I can’t believe it myself!”

“What are you going on about?” Sebastian asked half heartedly. He had run into a dead end for his search of Eleanor, and was trying to decide what his next move would be. Two months had gone by already, and they had not turned up anything concerning her disappearance.

“I know where Eleanor is,” Teddy announced.

“What? How?” Sebastian demanded.

“It’s in the newspaper. You are not going to like it. She is claiming to be your widow!”

“How can she be my widow? She never married me, and I am not dead.”

“It turns out she is an heiress. A Boyd, of all things. You know Clifford House. We passed it when we were looking for her. Somehow she has discovered she is the old man’s granddaughter. She told him she was a widow, and gave your name as her husband.”

“It’s because she is with child,” Sebastian breathed. “She had to cover up the fact that the child had no father. But an heiress? How did she come up with that?”

“I don’t know. But she is at Clifford House, and in a few weeks they plan to throw a ball in her honor.

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