How to Find a Duke in Ten Days by Grace Burrowes Shana Galen Carolyn Jewel

Author:Grace Burrowes, Shana Galen, Carolyn Jewel [Grace Burrowes, Shana Galen, Carolyn Jewel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

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DOMINICK STARED AT the ancient structure looming above them. They’d traveled through Cornwall all morning, until they’d finally reached what Dominick assumed must be the most remote area in all of England. The road—if one wanted to call it that—was flanked by cliffs on either side, and below the cliffs, the ocean slammed hard against craggy rocks worn and weathered by the centuries. Rising above it all at the end of a narrow peninsula was a gray structure with towers looming from all four corners and keyhole arrow slits cut into the stone.

“There it is. The Temples, Your Grace,” John Coachman announced, sitting back when he’d halted the carriage and an outrider had opened the doors.

“Why have we stopped here?” Dominick asked. The carriage stood a quarter mile or more from the entrance to the old building.

“It’s too narrow up ahead, and I don’t trust the ground. Could be dangerous for the horses, Your Grace.”

Dominick stepped down and surveyed the road himself. The coachman was correct. It would be dangerous for the horses and the carriage to continue. He turned to see Rosalyn descending the carriage steps. She wore a long cape that hid the male clothing she wore underneath, but he knew she was prepared to climb the wall of The Temples at his mere command.

“We walk from here,” he said, turning away from her. He waved off the outriders who would have accompanied them, as well as the maidservant. The fewer people who approached the mad earl the better. In fact, Dominick would have left Rosalyn at the carriage too, but she would need a close view of the building if she had to climb it later.

Of course, now, as he walked ahead of her along the rocky path, he was rethinking that plan. He shouldn’t have kissed her. He’d known it was a bad idea the moment he’d considered it, but he hadn’t been able to convince himself when she stood before him. But in the cold light of morning, when he’d been apart from her for hours and able to evaluate the situation, he knew becoming personally involved with her had been a mistake. She was a servant, little more. He couldn’t afford to worry about her safety. If every time he looked up at the high steep walls of The Temples, he imagined her plummeting to her death on the wet rocks below, he would never allow her to scale them. And then he might never acquire the manuscript.

The manuscript was everything, not simply because he wanted to be able to present it to Professor Peebles, though that was important. The man had searched for the volume his whole life. There was no one more deserving. But the search was about more than that. It was about proving himself as a member of the Bibliomania Club. The club stood for truth and knowledge, and Dominick wanted to contribute to those lofty purposes by acquiring a volume that would shed light on the truth and knowledge as it had been viewed in the time of the book’s conception.

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