Shattered Dreams by King Rebecca

Author:King, Rebecca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, mystery, historical fiction, historical romance, romantic mystery, historical mystery, romantic adventure
Publisher: Rebecca King

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“Here! Lady! Let me buy those two baskets off you,” Harry called, and slammed to a stop in front of an old woman. When she stopped to look at him, he named a sum of money that made her stare at him as though he had lost his mind. Unsurprisingly though, when he held the money out, she snatched it off him and handed the baskets over with a smirk of thanks seconds before she scurried away.

Harry knew that he had just been robbed, but didn’t give a damn in light of his desperate need to purchase enough food for everyone. When he had left the Rectory earlier, his thoughts had been focused on following the Dandridges’ to their new home before he had turned his attention to the need to purchase food.

Thankfully, they had taken rooms at a lodging house right in the centre of town. While he was relieved that they hadn’t caught the first post chaise out of town, he couldn’t help but wonder why they hadn’t left. There was the matter of their thefts to take into account after all. They were either extremely confident that their thefts wouldn’t be noticed, or were up to something else that had yet to be discovered. He rather suspected it was the latter.

Aware that the Dandridges’ may not stay in one place for long, Harry quickly sent a young boy to take a note to Barnaby at the poor house, and then turned his attention to the shopping. He stopped off at a bakery and purchased several loaves of bread, some cakes, buns and an entire tray of pies, and ordered the baker to deliver them to the Rectory as a matter of urgency. He then hurried over to the butchers, and purchased several prime cuts of meat along with sausages, bacon and cheese, and then moved on to one of the market stalls where he selected enough vegetables to feed a small army.

With his pockets now empty, his newly purchased baskets heavily laden, and a veritable army of overloaded traders behind him, Harry made his way back to the Rectory. As he walked, he was very aware of the almost desperate need to get back to Tilly. Not Suzanna and Zack, but Tilly. He tried to tell himself that his interest in her was just professional responsibility because she was now part of his investigation, but he knew that wasn’t the case at all.

He was positive that the connection he felt with her had absolutely nothing to do with his work, or her situation. The strong emotion that had passed between them earlier was nothing short of awareness; a deep, sensual awareness that only usually existed between a man and a woman who needed, and wanted, to be together.

“Stand back,” he warned Tilly, as he made his way to the back door. Her smile of welcome was so wide that when she answered the door, he found himself smiling back somewhat dazedly as he slid his burden onto the table, and stood back to instruct the rest of the traders where to leave their goods.

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