Hyacinth by Bowlin Chasity

Author:Bowlin, Chasity
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Hyacinth stifled an exasperated sigh as she trudged along behind the sedan chair Lady Arabella had insisted upon for their outing. The dowager Lady Dumbarton was far ahead of them in a sedan chair of her own that was apparently manned by far more capable porters, but it was still slow going. She was impatient to reach their destination. They were going to the cliffs that looked out over the sea, and out over the stretch of beach where she’d been told the missing Lady Dumbarton had vanished from. If there was one thing Hyacinth was certain of, the woman she’d seen in the corridor had been flesh and blood. How would she have created a vision of Annabel that matched her so closely having never seen her otherwise?

There were only a handful of plausible explanations but, in truth, they presented themselves more as questions. Had Lady Dumbarton fled and faked her own death? Had she never left at all? Was there someone who could masquerade as the late Lady Dumbarton? If so, to what end? Was it all just to torment his lordship? Ian.

Thinking of him so familiarly was dangerous ground to tread. She knew that, but after the very charged and intimate moment they had shared that morning, how could she think of him any other way? She wouldn’t lie to herself and pretend she didn’t want him. She did. Oddly enough, she worried that in their current situation, she would be taking advantage of him rather than the other way around. He was isolated and alone, tormented by heaven knew what or whom, and she was his only ally. How could she act upon her attraction when she had no notion if his feelings for her were only because he felt dependent upon her in some way?

Their walks were a high point of her day, but the more time she spent in his presence, the more obvious it became that she was quite literally playing with fire. That moment in the gallery, when he’d been on the verge of kissing her, all reason had fled. She’d wanted nothing more than to press herself against him and toss all of her inhibitions to the wind. And he would be joining them very shortly. Any questions she had needed to be asked quickly.

Hastening her stride to close the distance between herself and the sedan chair, Hyacinth asked, “Lady Arabella, how did Lord Dumbarton meet his wife?”

“In London, of course. It’s where everyone goes to meet a husband or wife. Honestly, I cannot understand your aversion to it given your unmarried state. If ever you want to correct it, you’ll have to get beyond that, girl! I know, know! You think you want nothing to do with it and that spinsterhood is the only course for you. But you are quite wrong! And you are entirely too young to give up hope!” Lady Arabella finished with an emphatic thump on the side of the sedan chair that very nearly sent her spilling out onto the rocky path.

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