Her Safe Harbor by Holly Bush

Author:Holly Bush
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical Romance, Victorian, Historical
Publisher: Holly Bush Books
Published: 2016-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

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Zeb wandered through Willow Tree, passing servants, all of whom asked if they could help him or get him anything, or show him to the library. He declined their assistance and instead continued walking the wide hallways until he passed a doorway that servants were coming from and going into. He opened the door and found a stairwell leading to a labyrinth of rooms, including a massive kitchen.

Cooks, maids, and housemen all were at work, doing their assigned duties. A short, round woman approached him.

“Are you looking for Mr. Bellings or Mrs. Gutentide, sir?” she asked.

He smiled and shook his head. “I don’t know who I’m looking for. I wanted to speak to someone who knows the O’Briens and may be willing to introduce me to them.”

Several people stopped what they were doing and looked at him. Others gathered around him. An older man looked at him from the top of his head to his shoes. He took a sliver of wood out from between his teeth. “Who’s asking?” he said.

“My name is Zebidiah Moran. I’m here at the request of Senator Maximillian Shelby, to see to the safety of his wife, Mrs. Jolene Shelby, and her sister, Miss Jennifer Crawford.”

“How do we know you’re who you say you are?” the man asked.

“He’s telling the truth,” a brawny young man said as he leaned against a doorframe. “I took Miss Jennifer’s and Eliza’s trunks on the train to Senator Shelby’s home last month. Delivered them as I was told to do a day before they arrived. Saw this gent. The houseman said he was aide-de-camp to the senator.”

“Why on earth would the trunks not travel with them on the day they went, Luther?” someone asked.

Luther shrugged. “Don’t think the mistress wanted anyone to know she was going.”

“That’s enough with the gossip,” an older, distinguished-looking woman said as she made her way down the hallway. The crowd dispersed as she came, other than the man with the sliver of wood, once again between his teeth, and Luther, now standing straight, arms crossed in front of him.

“I didn’t say nothing out of turn,” he said.

“May I help you, sir? I’m Mrs. Gutentide, the housekeeper here at Willow Tree.”

“I imagine you heard my introduction, ma’am. I am interested in meeting the O’Briens.”

“You do understand that Miss O’Brien has been injured? Most brutally.”

“I do, ma’am. I am hoping to speak to Mr. O’Brien about it.”

Mrs. Gutentide looked at Luther. “Have you carried over the evening meal for them yet?”

“Clarice is packing it now.”

She turned back to Zeb. “Walk to the stable house with Luther when he delivers their meal. He can ask Mr. O’Brien if he is willing to speak to you.”

“Thank you, ma’am.”

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