Desperately Seeking Suzanna by Elizabeth Michels - Tricks Of The Ton 02 - Desperately Seeking Suzanna

Author:Elizabeth Michels - Tricks Of The Ton 02 - Desperately Seeking Suzanna [Michels, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Adult, Humour, Fiction, Historical Romance, Regency
ISBN: 9781402286032
Google: nbsPAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00GM43HCQ
Barnesnoble: B00GM43HCQ
Goodreads: 20860029
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

Holden stepped into his parlor. That must have been where he left his book, for he’d certainly searched everywhere else. He doubted he would be able to settle into a book for distraction from his circular thoughts, but he planned to try like the devil. He stilled at the creak of the chair in the corner of the room.

“Oh. Mother, I didn’t know you were…” He watched his mother’s chest rise and fall with sleepy breaths. Her knitting lay abandoned in her lap as she dozed in the warmth of the small room.

He lingered by the door for a moment, not wanting to disturb her. He’d let a day slip past already with similar reasoning. Soon he would find a home for her and tell her she must leave his house, but not just yet. Holden ran a hand through his hair and glanced over his shoulder at the open doorway. He could leave. He didn’t really need…

“I was looking for a book,” he whispered, taking a step farther into the room. Although he came looking for his latest read, his eyes never strayed from her sleeping form in the chair. “I started it a few days ago, but now I can’t seem to place it.” When she didn’t stir, he raised his voice to a soft level. “I suppose Fezawald could have borrowed it. However, I can’t quite see him interested in The History of Art in Eastern Europe.”

His mother’s chest rose, then fell without a twitch.

Holden shook his head. All of chattering London and he was here talking to a napping deceased woman. “I’m not sure why I’m explaining this to you since you’re asleep. You are asleep, aren’t you?” The silence in the room seemed to extend to the whole world, as if everyone in existence had ceased what they were doing for a moment to listen. Nothing.

“That’s what I thought.” He moved closer, sitting on the edge of the tea table near her chair. “It really is too bad, you know. You’ve missed so much of life being locked away. It’s where you had to be, but sometimes I can’t help but wonder…

“God! Why do things have to be this way? If you were of sane mind, things would be so different.” He dropped his head to his hand, trying to rub his troubles away from his temples. “You can’t come to any more balls, Mother. I don’t know if you understand that. Aunt Pen wants me to place you back in Brooke House, but I told her no. Yet you can’t stay here forever. She says it’s not safe, and I admit when I saw you talking to Sue…” He exhaled on a ragged breath.

“Of course Sue didn’t suspect anything, but that doesn’t matter. Your very presence puts those around you in danger.” He thought of Sue and shivered. “I wish you understood the position I’m in because of you. Aunt Pen saw you the other night. And if she saw you, so could another, and then all of the well-crafted lies to protect everyone would be exposed.

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