Lady Audacious: Regency Ladies Vol 3 by Wendy Soliman

Author:Wendy Soliman [Soliman, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-05T23:00:00+00:00

Sarah paced up and down the length of her chamber, arms folded tight across her chest, feeling fit to be tied.

‘What do you mean, he spent an age with her alone in her tack room? Whatever did they find to talk about? What was he doing there at all for that matter? He has no business with that trollop.’

‘Doris couldn’t hear very much. Seems he went there looking for his lost puppy and she had it all along. And now he’s given it to her as a gift.’

‘Ha! She probably stole it deliberately, just so that he would go to her.’ Sarah closed her eyes but the red mist still crept beneath the lids, blurring her vision and twisting her mind with a vicelike hold. ‘She’s just the sort of conniving nobody who would be reduced to such low stratagems.’

‘Doris said that she had another visitor. Some man who seemed to think he had claims on her time. They argued but before she could get close enough to hear what it was all about, the earl arrived and sent the man away.’

‘Her knight in shining armour,’ Sarah said, her voice loaded with sarcasm, her head pounding as her brain screamed at her to end Reuben’s association with the jade. ‘Why the devil he wants to involve herself with such an inconsequential doxy defies explanation.’

‘Don’t get yourself in such a taking, pet. You’ll only trigger one of your episodes. It’s the house he wants,’ Nelly replied in a calmly placating tone. ‘Everyone says the young woman is as plain as a pikestaff. She’s nothing compared to you. Well, you would know that, given that you’ve already made her acquaintance.’

Aware that Reuben’s behaviour implied total indifference towards her, Sarah was not mollified by the compliment. Their new neighbour had been here for two days and she was uncomfortably aware that Reuben had spent more time alone with her in that time than he had with Sarah in the last two months. Be that as it may, she had invested too much time in her pursuit of Reuben to have him distracted by the little strumpet.

She was highly suspicious of her sudden appearance and valuable inheritance. There must be something scandalous in her past that would account for her acquisition of Fox’s Reach. Sarah was determined to find out what it was and save Reuben from dishonour by association. If she could demonstrate to him that she had done so only because she had his best interests at heart, she would be bound to win his gratitude.

And the rest would surely follow.

Pleased with a plan that saw the red mist dissipate and the thumping inside her head recede, she came to a decision.

‘Pay Doris more if she can bring me precise information,’ Sarah said. ‘Have her search her mistress’s things for clues when she is outside digging in her garden, or whatever it is that she does with her time. Can Doris read?’

Nelly shook her head. ‘Barely.’

‘Bother. She won’t be much help then. Not that I suppose the doxy keeps anything incriminating in writing.

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