Healing Lord Barton: Sweet and Clean Regency Romance (His Majesty's Hounds Book 9) by Arietta Richmond

Author:Arietta Richmond [Richmond, Arietta]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Dreamstone Publishing
Published: 2017-11-16T23:00:00+00:00

That afternoon, as Sybilla sat at the escritoire in the library of Greyscar Keep, she was distracted from her writing. The day’s discoveries had left her feeling odd, and the silence of the library seemed filled with ghosts of the past, as if Stanford’s actions, all those years ago, had left echoes in the stone, right down to today. He, and Ella, and Genevieve had become so real in her mind, that she half expected to see him walk into the room.

Her mind replayed the early afternoon conversation with the vicar, as they had looked through the registers. The vicar had seemed most unhappy that they wished to pursue their investigations – which was strange in a man obsessed with history. It was almost as if there was something that he did not wish them to find. As if he were hiding something from them.

What was it, about Gallowbridge House, that made people respond that way? For had not Mrs Westby also been most uncomfortable, and unforthcoming about the topic, when Miss Millpost had asked her?

The thought worried her – she felt that she was missing something important, but she simply couldn’t see it. She pushed the whole thing aside, and went back to writing. In this chapter, she had trapped her poor heroine in a lightless crypt, with no way to escape. Now she had to write just the correct gothic atmosphere, as the poor girl waited for the hero to discover her.

That thought produced a mental image of Lord Barton, and the kiss that they had shared in the crypt under Dartworth Abbey. Her body heated at the very thought, and she stared blankly before her, writing forgotten, as she relived it in memory.

~~~~~

Mrs Westby went into the library, shutting the door behind her. The girl and her companion were off to Dartworth Abbey again for the morning, so this was the best time to clean and dust in the library. She glared at the escritoire where the pile of Lady Sybilla’s writings and associated notes sat, with a paperweight holding them down.

She wished that the girl would just finish the dratted book and be gone back to Meltonbrook Chase. Every day that she was here was a reminder and, as if that wasn’t enough, she and that uppity and nosy companion kept poking into history that was best left lie. And the way that she was going, with all of the time that Lady Sybilla spent over at the Abbey, with that young Lord Barton, she wouldn’t be at all surprised if the follies of the past had a way of repeating themselves.

Her expression was grim, as she went about the dusting.

Her thoughts went back to the message she’d had from John, just yesterday. He wanted to sell Gallowbridge House – to sell it! How had it come to this, that his business was doing so badly that the money was needed? Surely, there was another answer?

If they sold it, she’d have to clear everything out. The thought of that was like the thought of desecrating something holy.

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