Midnight Secrets by Jennifer St Giles

Author:Jennifer St Giles [St Giles, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Historical, Mystery, Romance
ISBN: 0425209628
Amazon: B004MYGTC8
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011-04-12T05:00:00+00:00

Saturday dawned and with it a sense of expectation that something would happen, a feeling I had little affinity for, given anything likely to happen wouldn’t be good. But I’d had no warning dream, so I faced the day on edge.

Bridget and I were given the task of dusting the two rooms of eclectic art I’d discovered when looking for Rebecca a couple of weeks ago. We started with the statue room. After dusting off twenty nude figures then coming to a couple, nude and intimately entwined, I had to sit back and rest. Bridget had done as many statues as I, and we weren’t finished yet.

I thought I would scream if I had to wipe another man’s privates. At least these statues followed the miniscule precepts of the great masters when it came to such matters, but for whatever sophomoric reason, I couldn’t seem to dismiss the anatomy from my mind. Having to dust so many kept me thinking about Zeus in the garden and Sean. And the entwined couple now had me thinking many things I shouldn’t. “My word, but this is a bit much to take.”

“Makes a person’s arms ache, it does.” Bridget swiped her sleeve across her forehead.

“Someone surely had an obsession with naked statues. It’s almost obscene to have so many.”

Bridget laughed. “Is that what you’re so flustered and huffing about this morning? Ack, Cassie, don’t you realize that all over the world males are male and females are female? Just like horses and pigs and cows and bulls and dogs. We got the same parts and are wanting to do the same thing. It’s what God gave us the parts for. Nothing to be ashamed of.”

“I’m not ashamed.” Horses and pigs? Bulls and dogs? The same? Good Lord, I hoped not.

“If you’re not ashamed, then you aren’t very comfortable with the notion.”

“Well, such things are not proper material for thought or discussion.”

“If you can’t think about it, and you can’t talk about it, and you can’t do it, then you might as well end the world tomorrow ’cause there won’t be nobody around to be living in it. Now does that make any sense at all?”

I sat back and sighed. “No.”

“My mum says it’s what keeps the world going.”

I nodded, thinking that Bridget and I truly had come from two different worlds. My mother would faint before saying something like that, and I think my sisters and I would have fainted to hear it. But in all honesty, Bridget was right, except for one thing. When it came to Sean, he didn’t make the world go around. He stopped it in its tracks.

We finished the statue room and I went back to the kitchens to get more rags and lemon wax to tackle the next room, while Bridget made a head start.

Clutching clean clothes in my hands as I left the laundry, I heard voices coming from the second kitchen and moved closer to hear. Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Frye were talking.

“Stuart says the Killdaren left for the village an hour ago.

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