Of Sin & Sanctuary by K.J. Jackson

Author:K.J. Jackson [Jackson, K.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-24T23:00:00+00:00

{ Chapter 13 }

“You have been glowing these past two days since you have returned from Glenhaven, Violet.” Cassandra walked into the office at the rear of the Revelry’s Tempest ballroom and sat down in a ruby-hued upholstered chair across from Violet.

Violet looked up from the contract with the magician set to perform at the gala, unable to contain a smile at Cassandra’s words. “It shows so easily?”

“You are humming as you are looking over the performers’ contracts. I have never known you to hum in this room.” Cassandra’s eyes narrowed. “For that matter, I don’t think I’ve heard you hum since you were eighteen. Maybe in the garden I have heard it once or twice—but that could have just as easily been a songbird.”

Violet chuckled at the teasing. “I must clamp down upon my smiles. Not a person is going to take me seriously if I evoke the silly blush of a young miss.”

“Well, I enjoy it.” Cassandra waved her hand in the air, her normally soft voice excited. “Go ahead and hide it from others if you must, but I hope it does not wane. I would have you humming and happy over somberness any day of the year. If I had known this would be the outcome, I would have dragged Theodore to your feet a year ago when he was here and duped me out of those markers while you were away visiting Adalia.”

“I don’t know if that would have worked a year ago. But now…” She paused, her smile turning serious. “Humming seems to be a very attainable task since my trip to Glenhaven.”

“I had thought never to see it, so I am happy for it.”

Genuine happiness for her shined in Cassandra’s eyes, so much so, that Violet could not hold her secret any longer.

“He wants to marry me, Cass.”

Cassandra’s head jerked, a frown overtaking her face. “When did this happen? What did you say?”

“At Glenhaven. Before we left. I did not answer him.”

Cassandra sat straight, scooting forward on the chair. “And you are just telling me of this now?”

Her right cheek scrunching upward, Violet’s lips drew inward. “I know. I am sorry. But I had to let it sit in my mind—it had to be mine alone for a few days. I was not sure how to react. You know my past. You know how this would be the last thing I would ever consider again.”

Cass leaned forward, her eyes earnest. “But it is Theodore.”

Violet nodded slowly. “It is Theo. And that is all the difference.”

“So…what next?”

“I do not know.”

Cassandra sighed, her head shaking. “Well, this will require further discussion—and at length, but at the moment, we do not have that time as the creditor and his associate are in the drawing room.”

“Mr. Olston?” Violet’s eyebrows drew together. “He is a half hour early. And he brought an associate?”

“Yes. A female. It was a bit awkward as his arrival interrupted my meeting with Logan. We were discussing the four additional men he has hired for security on the night of the gala.

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