Revenge of an Englishman by Kevin Patrick

Author:Kevin Patrick [Patrick, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16 - Rearranging the Chessboard

I looked at my sister and she looked back at me. I don't know if she recognised me or not, but I didn't keep her glance long enough to check whether she had. I got up from the table and said that I suddenly felt unwell. I asked the men at the table and the new arrivals to forgive me, and I quickly rushed away from the table. Even more than that, I quickly rushed out of the ballroom and as soon as I was out through the front steel gates that separated the premises from the street, I began running away from the scene at full sprint.

It was a disorientating experience to have my sister, my younger sister, married to one of the men who had tried to kill me. Mrs. Cromwell, the words felt like a dagger. It was clear that things had changed in three years but I had not expected such a horrible turn of events to have taken place. However, this unexpected outcome had not changed my plans. I would still make sure that James Cromwell would suffer for his crime. I would punish him doubly for the audacity to marry the sister of the person who he had thought he had killed.

For the entirety of the night, I walked around the streets of London. I walked near the palaces of the Royal Family and close to their majestic gardens and grounds, and I walked to the poverty-stricken areas of the city. I could hear the wailing of the children in the poor areas of town who were screaming from starvation and I felt sad for them. Similar to them I was in pain and yearning for something, retribution, but I suffered alone in silence.

The day after the ball also brought some shocking news that I was unprepared for. I returned to the house where I had grown up and where I believed my family still resided. However, after knocking the door and it being answered by a butler, I found out the tenants of the house were not my parents and the butler had never heard of the Underhill family who had resided in the property before the current tenant. Apart from my sister who was now married to one of my greatest enemies, I did not know where on God's green earth my mother, father and brother were. This entire affair with my family made me so upset and anxious that I stayed in my hotel room for the entirety of that evening and the whole following day.

The door of my hotel room was knocked on three times throughout my period of self-imposed solitude. Twice was by the chamber-maids who had come to clean the room and ensure that everything was fresh, and one was from the receptionist of the hotel who came to tell me that there was a note at the reception desk for me. The receptionist asked if I wanted the note to be delivered to me in my room, but I refused and said that I would go down to retrieve it when I was ready.

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