Heart in Hiding by Sahara Kelly

Author:Sahara Kelly
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: 0
Published: 2018-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The parlour was silent as everyone watched Finn.

Hecate’s cry for tea had also brought Dal running, with Lady Augusta close behind. Together they’d all helped her get Finn off his feet and into a chair, where he’d slumped and closed his eyes.

Winnie hurried in with a tea tray and Hecate poured, her hands shaking and making the pot clink against the cup. Even Beelzebub appeared out of nowhere, and jumped up onto the mantelpiece, his eyes wide and roaming the room, black tail twitching in nervous curiosity.

Augusta grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around his legs, and Dal surreptitiously added a good dollop of brandy to the tea.

It was the last that helped Finn regain his countenance. Hecate held the tea beneath his nose urging him to drink, and the scent of the liquor percolated through his nostrils. He reached for the cup, happy that his hands were working and not shaking too much.

Seeing that face had been the shock that brought everything rushing back into his head.

Everything.

All his memories, all the details of those long months he’d lost—a tidal wave swamped him, washing away all the dams that had blocked his memories.

He took another gulp of the tea, letting the brandy warm him from the inside and the cup itself warm his cold hands.

“I’m sorry,” he mumbled, shaking his head a little as if trying to clear away the cobwebs.

“Don’t be silly,” scolded Hecate who sat at his feet on the floor. “Drink up. When you’re ready, we must know what you saw. And what you remember.” She touched his knee. “But only when you’re ready.”

Nodding, he tried to breathe more slowly, and finished the tea. “Thanks,” he glanced up at Dal. “That helped.”

Dal merely nodded, his eyes on Finn’s face.

“I do apologise for frightening everyone,” Finn began, reaching for Hecate’s hand and drawing comfort from the feel of her fingers intertwining with his. “As you all know by now, I have been missing a part of my life…the part from the end of Waterloo to the moment Hecate found me in the forest.” He glanced down at her and managed a smile. “The moment she saved my life.”

“And now?” she encouraged him with a smile of her own and a little squeeze of her fingers.

He took a breath. “Now I remember. I remember all of it.”

Lady Augusta gasped. “Your memories have returned?”

“Yes, Ma’am. I saw a picture on the front of a newspaper…” he turned to Hecate. “Do you have it?”

“I do, Mr. Finn.” Dal brought the sheets over to Finn and opened them on the side table.

“There,” said Finn, pointing to a small rendering of a rotund and stately man. “That’s him. He was on the field at Waterloo.”

“He’s the one you told me about?” Hecate leaned over.

“Yes. When I knew him, he was Lieutenant Colonel Aubrey DeWitt. One of the officers on the field of Waterloo. He had a solid reputation, was good to his men and most of us considered him a strong soldier and leader.

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