Pembroke Palace 01 (2007) by In My Wildest Fantasies

Author:In My Wildest Fantasies [Fantasies, In My Wildest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-30T15:58:03+00:00

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Creighton made his way across the hall. His face was pale and gaunt. “May I offer you a drink?”

“No.”

The earl approached him warily. “I assume you read my note?” Rushton reached into his breast pocket and withdrew it. He held it up between two long fingers, wiggled it in the air, then tossed it onto the ashes in the grate. “How is it possible that you do not know the whereabouts of your own daughter?”

“She sneaked away four nights ago. I thought perhaps she might return by now.”

“You promised to deliver her to me today. Instead I get this written apology. You should have informed me sooner.”

The earl had no reply.

Rushton strode to him. He was more than a foot taller than the old earl, and found himself looking at the top of the man’s balding head, for his cowardly gaze was fixed on the floor as usual.

“Did you make the mistake of telling her she would become my wife?” The earl nodded. Still he did not look up.

Rushton spoke in a low controlled voice, though it boiled with his wrath. “Why? You should have just stuck her in the carriage and brought her to me.”

“I had to tell her,” he replied. “She knew something was wrong.”

“Well, now somethingis wrong,” Rushton said. “My bride has run off and you are in danger of being exposed. If you want to prevent it, get your daughter back.”

“I don’t know where she went.”

“You had best figure it out, Creighton, or you know what will happen. You have one week.” Never once lifting his gaze, the earl backed away and sank into a chair against the wall. He dropped his head into a trembling hand and began to weep.

Rushton felt no pity for the man. He could not. Creighton had brought this on himself, doing what he did to Serena that day at the rotunda. He deserved to go to hell for it.

Besides that, there were too many years of his own misery locked away in this house. It was why he had brought Serena here to tempt and lure the earl into his trap in the first place. If the man had not lost his head at the rotunda, Rebecca would not now be forced to be a part of this. Serena would have accomplished the task for her. She would have borne a male heir for Creighton, then Rushton would have moved in to take over from there.

But it hadn’t worked out that way, had it? So now he needed Rebecca. His lip twitched with repugnance as he turned around and walked out.

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