Lady Hartley's Inheritance by Soliman Wendy

Author:Soliman, Wendy [Soliman, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Musa Publishing
Published: 2011-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Clarissa, waltzing with the charming Lord Denver, struggled to make conversation. She had danced with him before and had found him to be a welcome exception to the predictability of the tonnish throng, but tonight her heart wasn’t in it. She needed to think about all that had happened that day, but thus far there had been no opportunity for solitude. Most of all though, she needed to assure herself that Luc wasn’t attempting more activities he hadn’t bothered to discuss with her first.

She was convinced that his requirement for a private conversation with Felix was somehow connected with her affairs. He’d promised that he would take no further steps without consulting her, but she sensed he was still trying to shield her from the unpalatable truth and didn’t trust him to keep his word. In his chivalrous, but ridiculously misguided, endeavour to protect her from the unpleasantness of her attorney’s duplicity, she wouldn’t put it past him to try to gull her. That possibility decided matters. She would go in search of him straight away and confront him.

Excusing herself from Lord Denver, and having no wish to be cornered by the hovering Mr. Basnet and Lord Thomas, Clarissa slipped from the ballroom unobserved. She took the same door through which she’d seen Luc and Felix disappearing, only to be confronted by a confusing corridor which branched off in different directions. She paused, wondering what to do now. If she returned to the ballroom she suspected there would be a posse of gentlemen awaiting her, and she had no wish to spend the next half an hour fending them off. She didn’t enjoy balls very much and had no wish to dance again…at least, not with anyone but Luc. She could return to Aunt Marcia but suspected that wouldn’t deter her suitors either.

Changing her mind for the third time, she decided she would definitely seek Luc out. Just at that moment she observed Felix leave a room on the left and head back to the ballroom. She was standing in the shadows, and he didn’t see her.

Luc must still be in there. In didn’t occur to her to wonder why, and she was about to approach, when something made her hesitate. This was the first time he’d left her alone for any period of time in public. She wouldn’t have him think she couldn’t survive for five minutes without him, so she’d visit the withdrawing room after all and then return to the ballroom.

Upon returning to the edge of the dance some ten minutes later, she observed some of her suitors scanning the crowd with their eyes, presumably looking for her. She noticed Lord Eversham was amongst them. She enjoyed his company more than most, since she was able to counter her homesickness by discussing Northumberland with him. But even the prospect of his conversation was not sufficient inducement this evening.

Luc was still nowhere in sight. Retreating quickly before she was seen, Clarissa returned to the threshold of the room she suspected he occupied, and opened the door, only to stop dead in her tracks.

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